Last year he announced he had tracked down the source: a giant, hot cluster
of hundreds of galaxies about 7 billion light - years away, the most distant such cluster known.
Actual gravitational lenses tend to be much more complicated, and can be made up of clusters
of hundreds of galaxies.
His team has designed a balloon - borne telescope called SuperBIT, which they hope to use to
check hundreds of galaxy clusters for misbehaving dark matter.
That conclusion got a big boost from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, an Australian - British project that uses the Anglo - Australian Telescope in New South Wales, Australia, to gague the motions of
hundreds of galaxies per hour.
Yan, also the survey scientist for the survey called Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA), was working with the international team, including lead author Edmond Cheung of the University of Tokyo, to
study hundreds of galaxies when they caught a supermassive black hole blasting away at the cold gas in its host galaxy.
It has
many hundreds of galaxies (mostly spirals and irregulars) distributed into an irregular shape about 10 million light years across.
To measure the dark matter in
hundreds of galaxy clusters and continue this investigation, Durham University has just finished helping to build the new SuperBIT telescope, which gets a clear view by rising above the Earth's atmosphere under a giant helium balloon.
«Clusters of galaxies are rare regions of the Universe consisting
of hundreds of galaxies containing trillions of stars, as well as hot gas and mysterious dark matter,» said the lead author, Tracy Webb of McGill University, Canada.
Shectman led the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS), the first galaxy redshift survey to use fiber - optic spectroscopy to measure the distances to
hundreds of galaxies in each exposure.
Astronomers sifted through a catalog containing measurements of
hundreds of galaxies to find the speed and location of 16 satellites around Centaurus A.
By stacking all of those points on top of one another, the researchers combined the faint x-ray glow from the heart of
hundreds of galaxies, which were undetectable individually, into a brighter aggregate (see photo inset).
There are some places, known as clusters, where dozens or
hundreds of galaxies are found close together.
Clusters are rare regions of the Universe consisting of
hundreds of galaxies containing trillions of stars, as well as hot gas and mysterious Dark Matter.