Indian scientists discover supercluster of galaxies
14th July, 2017Category:
A team of Indian astronomers has discovered an extremely large supercluster of galaxies, as big as 20 million billion suns, which they have named Saraswati, Pune-based Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) reported. These findings were published in the latest issue of The Astrophysical Journal, the premier research journal of the American Astronomical Society.
It is one of the largest known structures in the neighbourhood of the universe, 4,000 million light—years away from Earth and roughly more than 10 billion years old. Its mass extends over the scale of 600 million light years.
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