{"id":78054,"date":"2018-04-26T14:42:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T21:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/this-megamerger-of-14-galaxies-could-become-the-most-massive-structure-in-our-universe"},"modified":"2018-04-26T14:42:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T21:42:53","slug":"this-megamerger-of-14-galaxies-could-become-the-most-massive-structure-in-our-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/this-megamerger-of-14-galaxies-could-become-the-most-massive-structure-in-our-universe","title":{"rendered":"This Megamerger of 14 Galaxies Could Become The Most Massive Structure in Our Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-megamerger-of-14-galaxies-could-become-the-most-massive-structure-in-our-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peering billions of light-years back to when the Universe was just 10 percent of its current age, astronomers have spotted a colossal pile-up: 14 young, starbursting galaxies merging into one of the most massive structures in the Universe.<\/p>\n<p>Using some of the most powerful telescopes in operation today, an international research team discovered the extremely dense concentration of hot galaxies careening towards each other.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually the megamerger will form a cluster of galaxies, gravitationally bound by dark matter and ultimately smooshing together into one ginormous galaxy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/galaxy-megamergers-in-the-early-universe-protoclusters-spt2349-56-dusty-red-core\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/galaxy-megamergers-in-the-early...y-red-core<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peering billions of light-years back to when the Universe was just 10 percent of its current age, astronomers have spotted a colossal pile-up: 14 young, starbursting galaxies merging into one of the most massive structures in the Universe. Using some of the most powerful telescopes in operation today, an international research team discovered the extremely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78054","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=78054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}