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Dr.Stanley O'Google said:
Monster "El Gordo" Galaxy Cluster is Bigger Than Thought

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This is a composite image of X-rays from Chandra and optical data from Hubble of the galaxy cluster ACT-CL J0102-4915, located about 7 billion light years from Earth. This cluster has been nicknamed "El Gordo" (or, "the fat one" in Spanish) because of its gigantic mass.

Scientists first announced the discovery of El Gordo with Chandra and ground-based optical telescopes in 2012. They determined that El Gordo is the most massive, the hottest, and gives off the most X-rays of any known galaxy cluster at its distance or beyond.

New data from the Hubble Space Telescope suggests El Gordo weighs as much as 3 million billion times the mass of our Sun. This is about 43 percent higher than the original estimate based on the X-ray data and dynamical studies.

The new Hubble study determined that most of the mass is hidden away as dark matter. The location of the dark matter is mapped out in this composite in blue. Because dark matter doesn't emit any radiation, astronomers instead precisely measure how its gravity warps the images of far background galaxies like a funhouse mirror. This allowed them to come up with a mass estimate for the cluster. Chandra's X-ray data are shown in pink and these have been overlaid on optical data from Hubble that shows the individual galaxies in the cluster as well as stars in the field of view.

The X-ray image of El Gordo reveals a distinct cometary appearance. Along with the optical data, this shows that El Gordo is, in fact, the site of two galaxy clusters running into one another at several million miles per hour. This and other characteristics make El Gordo akin to the well-known object called theBullet Cluster, which is located almost 4 billion light years closer to Earth.

As with the Bullet Cluster, there is evidence that normal matter, mainly composed of hot, X-ray bright gas, has been wrenched apart from the dark matter in El Gordo. The hot gas in each cluster was slowed down by the collision, but the dark matter was not.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., controls Chandra's science and flight operations.

Image credit: NASA, ESA, J. Jee (Univ. of California, Davis), J. Hughes (Rutgers Univ.), F. Menanteau (Rutgers Univ. & Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), C. Sifon (Leiden Obs.), R. Mandelbum (Carnegie Mellon Univ.), L. Barrientos (Univ. Catolica de Chile), and K. Ng (Univ. of California, Davis)
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Car spotted crashing in waves on beach in St Agnes
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Image captionThe vehicle was spotted crashing in the waves at Trevaunance Cove in Cornwall
A car has been pictured being washed around in the surf on a Cornish beach.

The silver BMW was seen crashing in the waves at Trevaunance Cove in St Agnes at about 06:00 BST.

It was towed away by a breakdown recovery driver a few hours later, who said "it was floating around like a boat" when he arrived.

The car, which is now a write-off, belongs to a man from Falmouth, and was "full of seaweed", the recovery driver said.

The owner of the beach, Steve Blundson, was walking his dogs when he saw the car, checked there was nobody inside and called the police.

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Image captionThe car was towed away by a vehicle recovery driver once the tide went out
A little later the owner turned up with two other men and explained that car had got stuck at the bottom of the slipway during a manoeuvre to try to turn it around.

Mr Blundson said: "They phoned the recovery guys at about 04:30 but by the time they turned up it was trying to be amphibious."

He added: "It's not the first time this has happened. It's not a regular occurrence but it does happen once a decade, so it's a 10-year event."

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Image captionThe owner of the beach said cars getting stuck there was a once-in-a-decade occurrence
Georgina Neve, who is a waitress at Schooner's restaurant overlooking the beach, said: "I've never seen a car in the sea like that here before.

"It's a very steep hill to the beach and obvious you shouldn't go down it or park there. It's quite funny really - hopefully their insurance will cover it."
 
Ron Burguvdy said:
Car spotted crashing in waves on beach in St Agnes
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Image captionThe vehicle was spotted crashing in the waves at Trevaunance Cove in Cornwall
A car has been pictured being washed around in the surf on a Cornish beach.

The silver BMW was seen crashing in the waves at Trevaunance Cove in St Agnes at about 06:00 BST.

It was towed away by a breakdown recovery driver a few hours later, who said "it was floating around like a boat" when he arrived.

The car, which is now a write-off, belongs to a man from Falmouth, and was "full of seaweed", the recovery driver said.

The owner of the beach, Steve Blundson, was walking his dogs when he saw the car, checked there was nobody inside and called the police.

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Image copyrightCHRIS HOWELL
Image captionThe car was towed away by a vehicle recovery driver once the tide went out
A little later the owner turned up with two other men and explained that car had got stuck at the bottom of the slipway during a manoeuvre to try to turn it around.

Mr Blundson said: "They phoned the recovery guys at about 04:30 but by the time they turned up it was trying to be amphibious."

He added: "It's not the first time this has happened. It's not a regular occurrence but it does happen once a decade, so it's a 10-year event."

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Image copyrightESTHER CHASE
Image captionThe owner of the beach said cars getting stuck there was a once-in-a-decade occurrence
Georgina Neve, who is a waitress at Schooner's restaurant overlooking the beach, said: "I've never seen a car in the sea like that here before.

"It's a very steep hill to the beach and obvious you shouldn't go down it or park there. It's quite funny really - hopefully their insurance will cover it."
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Must be the new Series Sea model ?
 
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Ron Burguvdy said:
Car spotted crashing in waves on beach in St Agnes
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Image copyrightCHRIS HOWELL
Image captionThe vehicle was spotted crashing in the waves at Trevaunance Cove in Cornwall
A car has been pictured being washed around in the surf on a Cornish beach.

The silver BMW was seen crashing in the waves at Trevaunance Cove in St Agnes at about 06:00 BST.

It was towed away by a breakdown recovery driver a few hours later, who said "it was floating around like a boat" when he arrived.

The car, which is now a write-off, belongs to a man from Falmouth, and was "full of seaweed", the recovery driver said.

The owner of the beach, Steve Blundson, was walking his dogs when he saw the car, checked there was nobody inside and called the police.

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Image copyrightCHRIS HOWELL
Image captionThe car was towed away by a vehicle recovery driver once the tide went out
A little later the owner turned up with two other men and explained that car had got stuck at the bottom of the slipway during a manoeuvre to try to turn it around.

Mr Blundson said: "They phoned the recovery guys at about 04:30 but by the time they turned up it was trying to be amphibious."

He added: "It's not the first time this has happened. It's not a regular occurrence but it does happen once a decade, so it's a 10-year event."

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Image copyrightESTHER CHASE
Image captionThe owner of the beach said cars getting stuck there was a once-in-a-decade occurrence
Georgina Neve, who is a waitress at Schooner's restaurant overlooking the beach, said: "I've never seen a car in the sea like that here before.

"It's a very steep hill to the beach and obvious you shouldn't go down it or park there. It's quite funny really - hopefully their insurance will cover it."
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Safer to crash in the waves then on the road
 
Five surgeons are discussing what type of person makes the best patient to operate on.



The first surgeon, from Belfast City Hospital, says, "I like to see accountants on my operating table because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered."



The second, from Antrim Area Hospital, responds, "Yeah, but you should try electricians! Everything inside them is colour coded."



The third surgeon, from Royal Belfast Hospital , says, "No, I really think librarians are the best! Everything inside them is in alphabetical order."



The fourth surgeon, from Musgrave Park Hospital "You know, I like construction workers...Those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over.'



But the fifth surgeon, from Ulster Hospital, Dundonald , shut them all up when he observed: 'You're all wrong. Lawyers are the easiest to operate on.



There's no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains and no spine. Plus, the head and the arse are interchangeable.’
 
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balkan tiger said:
can just picture the shell suit wearing Wayne and waynetta writing this
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So you and your missus didn't enjoy waiting then , Balkan?
 
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