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The Giant Arc: the gray contours represent the Mg II absorbers, which indicate the distribution of galaxies and galaxy clusters; the blue dots represent the background quasars; the Giant Arc is centered on this figure spanning -600 to +400 Mpc on the x-axis. Image credit: Lopez et al.

3.3-Billion-Light-Year-Long Arc of Galaxies Discovered

Jun 16, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers from the United States and the United Kingdom has made the discovery of a giant, almost symmetrical arc of galaxies...