Astronomers Map Action in the Cosmic Suburbs

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Large clusters (cities) consisting mainly of less active galaxies (colored red) are connected by filaments and smaller groups (highways and suburbs) with younger more active galaxies (blue). Galaxies with supermassive black holes shown in yellow tend ...
Large clusters (cities), consisting mainly of less active galaxies (colored red), are connected by filaments and smaller groups (highways and suburbs) with younger, more active galaxies (blue). Galaxies with supermassive black holes, shown in yellow, tend to be away from the cluster centers. (Roy Gal/University of Hawaii)

A group of Hawaii and California astronomers led by Lori Lubin of the University of California, Davis, and Roy Gal of the University of Hawaii at Manoa has mapped, for the first time, where the action is in a mega-structure in the distant universe. The results were announced May 27 at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.


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