El Gordo (The Fat One) Galaxy Cluster - Deep Sky Videos

Professor Meghan Gray discusses the immense galaxy cluster El Gordo (The Fat One), also known less catchily as ACT-CL J0102-4915.
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Professor Gray: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: ACT-CL J0102-4915 "El Gordo," a Massive Merging Cluster at Redshift 0.87 - https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/201...

JWST's PEARLS: A new lens model for ACT-CL J0102−4915, "El Gordo," and the first red supergiant star at cosmological distances discovered by JWST - https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/202...

Weighing "El Gordo" with a precision scale - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...

Head-to-Toe Measurement of El Gordo: Improved Analysis of the Galaxy Cluster ACT-CL J0102–4915 with New Wide-field Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Data - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...

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