Artist’s impression of ancient galaxy megamerger

This artist’’s impression video shows a group of interacting and merging galaxies in the early Universe. Such mergers have been spotted using the ALMA and APEX telescopes and represent the formation of galaxies clusters, the most massive objects in the modern Universe. Astronomers thought that these events occurred around three billion years after the Big Bang, so they were surprised when the new observations revealed them happening when the Universe was only half that age!

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ESO/M. Kornmesser

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Tunnistus:eso1812b
Julkaisupäivä:25. huhtikuuta 2018 19:00
Vastaavat julkaisut:eso1812
Kesto:18 s
Frame rate:30 fps

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Tyyppi:Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Large-Scale Structure
Kategoria:Cosmology

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