Back El Gordo (galaxy cluster) English ACT-CL J0102-4915 Basque ال گوردو (خوشهٔ کهکشانی) Persian El Gordo (amas de galaxies) French ACT-CL J0102-4915 Italian 엘 고르도 (은하단) Korean ACT-CL J0102-4915 Polish El Gordo (roi de galaxii) Romanian Ель Гордо (скупчення галактик) Ukrainian 埃尔戈尔多星系团 Chinese
El Gordo (lit. The Fat One) (ACT-CL J0102-4915 or SPT-CL J0102-4915) is the largest distant galaxy cluster seen as of 2011.
It has (2014) the record for being the largest distant galaxy cluster we have discovered. Its mass is slightly less than three quadrillion solar masses[1][2][3][4] Later its mass was reduced to about 2.1 quadrillion solar masses with a 10% uncertainty.
It was found by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (funded by the National Science Foundation) and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope.[5]
- ↑ Guinness World Records 2014, Page 030.
- ↑ Boen, Brooke; Dunbar, Brian (16 April 2014). "Monster "El Gordo" Galaxy Cluster is bigger than thought". NASA. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ↑ NASA, "El Gordo Galaxy Cluster" Archived 2012-01-13 at the Wayback Machine, 10 January 2012 (accessed 7 July 2012)
- ↑ Monster NASA "Monster "El Gordo" Galaxy Cluster is bigger than thought"
- ↑ CNN News 'Fat' galaxy cluster discovered 7 billion light-years away Archived 2017-08-16 at the Wayback Machine