Mysterious Cosmic Dark Flow (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Mysterious Cosmic Dark Flow

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The colored dots are clusters within one of four distance ranges, with redder colors indicating greater distance. Colored ellipses show the direction of bulk motion for the clusters of the corresponding color. Images of representative galaxy clusters in each distance slice are also shown.

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NASA/Goddard/A. Kashlinsky, et al.

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