NASA – Hubble Team Finds Monster ‘El Gordo’ Galaxy.

NASA – Hubble Team Finds Monster ‘El Gordo’ Galaxy.

Stunning and WOW!  “cluster’s mass is 3 million billion times the mass of our sun.”

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‘NASA:  

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has weighed the largest known galaxy cluster in the distant universe, catalogued as ACT-CL J0102-4915, and found it definitely lives up to its nickname — El Gordo (Spanish for “the fat one”).

By measuring how much the cluster’s gravity warps images of galaxies in the distant background, a team of astronomers has calculated the cluster’s mass to be as much as 3 million billion times the mass of our sun. Hubble data show the galaxy cluster, which is 9.7 billion light-years away from Earth, is roughly 43 percent more massive than earlier estimates.