National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and international team of astronomers found the farthest galaxy clusters in the universe. Clusters are named Cosmos-Aztec3 12.6 million years away from Earth and is the youngest galaxy clusters ever found.
Aged more than 12 billion years, the cluster was formed 1 billion years after the Big Bang.
- Bahram Mobasher
Professor Bahram Mobasher of the University of California who are involved in the study said, the cluster is a cluster of galaxies that are in the process of formation, called proto-clusters.
This galaxy cluster is described as a collection of small towns. At one point, the small galaxies will coalesce to form larger galaxies, such as a small town that grew into a metropolitan. Or it could be called a primitive galaxy clusters that will evolve into modern galaxies.
Cosmos-Aztec3 was discovered and characterized by a variety of telescopes, ranging from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the James Clerk Maxwell, until Japan's Subaru telescope and NASA's Hubble and Spitzer. Each telescope is used for characterization of different purposes.
The discovery of this cluster is quite surprising because observations with Chandra X-ray found a black hole is 3 million times more massive than the sun. It was not commonly found in clusters of galaxies that are still young as Cosmos-Aztec3.
Another surprising thing is, the whole object in a cluster that has a mass of more than 400 billion sun. Clusters of galaxies are also very active, rich in cold gas, grow with significant speed, and able to form a star 4000 each year.
Cosmos-Aztec3 known to lie in the constellation Sextans. His name was taken from a search mission, namely Cosmos (Cosmic Evolution Survey). Meanwhile, the Aztec is the name of the camera located at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope at Manua Kea, Hawaii.
The findings are published in the latest edition of the journal Nature. The team of researchers involved in this research was also present at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society being held this week in Seattle, the United States.
Aged more than 12 billion years, the cluster was formed 1 billion years after the Big Bang.
- Bahram Mobasher
Professor Bahram Mobasher of the University of California who are involved in the study said, the cluster is a cluster of galaxies that are in the process of formation, called proto-clusters.
This galaxy cluster is described as a collection of small towns. At one point, the small galaxies will coalesce to form larger galaxies, such as a small town that grew into a metropolitan. Or it could be called a primitive galaxy clusters that will evolve into modern galaxies.
Cosmos-Aztec3 was discovered and characterized by a variety of telescopes, ranging from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the James Clerk Maxwell, until Japan's Subaru telescope and NASA's Hubble and Spitzer. Each telescope is used for characterization of different purposes.
The discovery of this cluster is quite surprising because observations with Chandra X-ray found a black hole is 3 million times more massive than the sun. It was not commonly found in clusters of galaxies that are still young as Cosmos-Aztec3.
Another surprising thing is, the whole object in a cluster that has a mass of more than 400 billion sun. Clusters of galaxies are also very active, rich in cold gas, grow with significant speed, and able to form a star 4000 each year.
Cosmos-Aztec3 known to lie in the constellation Sextans. His name was taken from a search mission, namely Cosmos (Cosmic Evolution Survey). Meanwhile, the Aztec is the name of the camera located at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope at Manua Kea, Hawaii.
The findings are published in the latest edition of the journal Nature. The team of researchers involved in this research was also present at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society being held this week in Seattle, the United States.
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