{"id":176061,"date":"2023-11-15T11:23:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T17:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/the-cosmic-vine-astronomers-discover-a-large-structure-that-hosts-at-least-20-massive-galaxies"},"modified":"2023-11-15T11:23:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T17:23:56","slug":"the-cosmic-vine-astronomers-discover-a-large-structure-that-hosts-at-least-20-massive-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/the-cosmic-vine-astronomers-discover-a-large-structure-that-hosts-at-least-20-massive-galaxies","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Cosmic Vine\u2019: Astronomers discover a large structure that hosts at least 20 massive galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-cosmic-vine-astronomers-discover-a-large-structure-that-hosts-at-least-20-massive-galaxies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a large-scale structure that consists of at least 20 massive galaxies. The structure, dubbed \u201cCosmic Vine,\u201d has a size of about 13 million physical light years. The finding was detailed in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2311.04867\">published<\/a> Nov. 8 on the pre-print server <i>arXiv<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Massive and dense structures of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/galaxies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">galaxies<\/a> are perceived as progenitors of galaxy clusters\u2014the most massive gravitationally-bound systems in the universe. Therefore, detecting new structures of this type and investigating them in detail is fundamental for our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a group of astronomers led by Shuowen Jin of the Technical University of Denmark, has detected a new object of this type\u2014a large <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/vine\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">vine<\/a>-like structure, hence its name Cosmic Vine. The structure was revealed at a redshift of 3.44, in the Extended Groth Strip (EGS) field observed with JWST. The observations were complemented by data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a large-scale structure that consists of at least 20 massive galaxies. The structure, dubbed \u201cCosmic Vine,\u201d has a size of about 13 million physical light years. The finding was detailed in a paper published Nov. 8 on the pre-print server arXiv. Massive and dense structures of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}