Peering back to an era not long after the birth of the cosmos nearly 14 billion years ago, two teams of astronomers have captured the earliest snapshots yet of the emergence of galaxy clusters, one of the universe’s basic motifs.
“I’m just sort of blown away by this,” comments Marc Davis of the University of California, Berkeley.
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