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NASA s Hubble Telescope Captures Image Of Galaxy Cluster 3.5 Billion Light-Years Away
NASA said the huge mass of ACO S 295 has gravitationally lensed the light from background galaxies. By Edited by Gadgets 360 Newsdesk | Updated: 24 May 2021 10:59 IST
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It showcases galactic cluster ACO S 295
It shows a crowd of galaxies and stars packed into a single image
NASA has released a stunning image of a galactic cluster ACO S 295 that is 3.5 billion light-years away from the Earth taken by the Hubble telescope. It is in the middle of an overwhelming number of other galaxies and a similar number of stars in the small southern constellation of Horologium, also known as the clock. Captured by the Hubble telescope, the cluster, visible as a bright spot, dominates the centre of this image, both visually and physically. NASA said that the huge mass of the ACO S 295 has “gravitationally lensed” the light from background
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Around 760 million light years from Earth lies the galaxy cluster Abell 85, a mighty collection of about 500 galaxies all orbiting one another. At its center is the enormous elliptical galaxy Holmberg 15A… and I do mean enormous; some estimates put it at well over 50 trillion times the mass of the Sun, dozens of times more massive than the Milky Way.
All big galaxies have a supermassive black hole in their hearts, millions or billions of times the Sun s mass. In very rough terms the black hole size scales with the galaxy, and since the galaxy is so huge it s thought the black hole at its core may be as well. It s never been measured directly, but using various indirect bellwethers its mass has been estimated at tens of billions to well over a hundred billion times the Sun s mass. If true, it s the most massive black hole known. However, its actual size is in fact unknown.