El Gordo
colliding galaxy clusters · the fat one
light left it 7 billion years ago · now ~10 billion light-years away
Two giant clusters of galaxies smashing together, together weighing about 3 million billion Suns. The collision heats its gas to about 170 million °C and drives shock waves that glow in radio at both ends.
- about 3 million billion times the Sun's mass
- we see it as it was when the universe was half its age
- kind
- place in the universe at large · explosion or collision
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- Virgo Cluster cluster of galaxies
- the cosmic web filaments of galaxies around vast empty voids
- the observable universe everything light has had time to reach us from, in 13.8 billion years