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Distant proto-supercluster! An early intersection point in the cosmic web?

The system contains about 5,000 Milky Ways of mass and may grow into a supercluster larger than the Coma Cluster, researchers said.

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Astronomers have found the most distant proto-supercluster yet, an early collection of galaxies at a junction in the cosmic web. The post Distant proto-supercluster! An early intersection point in the cosmic web? first appeared on EarthSky.

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Distant proto-supercluster! An early intersection point in the cosmic web?

Astronomers have found the most distant proto-supercluster yet, an early collection of galaxies at a junction in the cosmic web. The post Distant proto-supercluster! An early intersection point in the cosmic web? first appeared on EarthSky.

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New Proto-Supercluster Of Galaxies Weighing The Same As 5,000 Milky Ways Is The Most Distant Ever Seen

Its light comes to us from just 2.1 billion years after the Big Bang.

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See a 3D map of a distant colossal cluster of galaxy clusters

A 3D map of a colossal proto-supercluster reveals how giant galaxy clusters grew from the cosmic web in the early universe.

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A Proto-Superamas of Galaxies Ridicule Our Milky Way

Astronomers discover the most distant proto-superamas of galaxies ever observed. This object has a mass 5,000 times greater than that of our galaxy.

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A cosmic giant 5,000 times the Milky Way’s mass emerges from the early Universe

Astronomers mapped a giant proto-supercluster from when the universe was 2.1 billion years old, revealing 10 clumps linked by cosmic filaments

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