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ScienceDaily: Galaxies News

ScienceDaily: Galaxies News


New mass map of distant galaxy cluster is most precise yet

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 07:42 AM PDT

Astronomers have mapped the mass within a galaxy cluster more precisely than ever before. Created using observations from Hubble's Frontier Fields observing program, the map shows the amount and distribution of mass within MCS J0416.1-2403, a massive galaxy cluster found to be 160 trillion times the mass of the Sun.

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