{"id":6067,"date":"2018-04-25T12:46:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T16:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6067"},"modified":"2018-05-23T13:10:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T17:10:02","slug":"a-massive-and-extremely-dense-cluster-of-galaxies-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/a-massive-and-extremely-dense-cluster-of-galaxies-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"A massive and extremely dense cluster of galaxies discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recently discovered massive and extremely dense protocluster\u2014the progenitor of a galaxy cluster\u2014could be building one of the most massive structures in the universe today. Researchers surveying a region of the sky with the South Pole Telescope discovered a population of rare, extremely bright objects. Based on observations of carbon monoxide and ionized carbon emissions, the brightest of these consists of a protocluster of at least 14 gas-rich galaxies that are rapidly forming stars. The galaxy cluster core may have been at an advanced stage of formation when the universe was only 1.4 billion years old.<\/p>\n

Original paper<\/a> published April 25, 2018<\/p>\n

Canadian co-authors: <\/strong>Tim Miller, Dalhousie University –\u00a0tim.miller@yale.edu<\/a>; Scott Chapman, Dalhousie University – scott.chapman@dal.ca<\/a>; Arif Babul, University of Victoria –\u00a0babul@uvic.ca<\/a>,\u00a0and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recently discovered massive and extremely dense protocluster\u2014the progenitor of a galaxy cluster\u2014could be building one of the most massive structures in the universe today. Researchers surveying a region of the sky with the South Pole Telescope discovered a population of rare, extremely bright objects. Based on observations of carbon monoxide and ionized carbon emissions, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1zR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6093,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions\/6093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}