Sentences with phrase «gravity of a massive galaxy cluster»
This animation illustrates how the powerful gravity of a massive galaxy cluster bends and focuses the light from a supernova behind it, resulting in multiple images of the exploding star.
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Acting as a «natural telescope» in space, the gravity of the extremely massive foreground galaxy cluster MACS J2129 - 0741 magnifies, brightens, and distorts the far - distant background galaxy MACS2129 - 1, shown in the top box.
Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe, containing hundreds to thousands of galaxies, bound together by gravity.
Material from a supernova will be thrown out of a globular cluster, but a galaxy should be massive enough for its gravity to hold on to those heavy elements.
The dark matter behavior that fits the observed galaxy clustering best comes from dark matter made of particles that are massive and weakly interacting, meaning that they do not feel the stronger forces like electromagnetism or the nuclear forces and respond only to gravity.