<div align="justify">Indian astrophysicists have discovered a massive supercluster of galaxies, located at a distance of four billion light years from the Earth.<br /><br />Named Saraswati supercluster, it is one of the most massive large-scale structures in the universe, located in the direction of the constellation of the Pisces.<br /><br />“Saraswati supercluster houses at least 40-42 galaxy-cluster and more than 10,000 galaxies. Existence of such large structures was not even thought of 10-15 years ago,” Somak Raychaudhury, director, Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics and leader of the team that made the discovery, told DH.<br /><br />The popular models of universe formation cannot predict the existence of such large structures within the current age of the universe.<br /><br />The discovery is therefore likely to open up a new window for scientists to re-examine the theories of universe formation.<br /><br />A supercluster is a chain of galaxies and galaxy clusters, bound by gravity, often stretching to several hundred times the size of clusters of galaxies, consisting of tens of thousands of galaxies.<br /><br />Earth, for instance, is part of a solar system in the Milky Way galaxy that houses 200-400 billion stars. The Milky Way galaxy is part of a super cluster called the Laniakea super cluster. Laniakea, however, is a smaller one compared to the newly-discovered one.<br /><br />The Saraswati supercluster extends over 600 million light-years and may contain the mass equivalent of over 20 million billion suns. <br /><br />The team that made the discovery comprises researchers from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur and Newman College, Thodupuzha, Kerala. <br /><br />The discovery would be published in an upcoming issue of the The Astrophysical Journal.</div>
<div align="justify">Indian astrophysicists have discovered a massive supercluster of galaxies, located at a distance of four billion light years from the Earth.<br /><br />Named Saraswati supercluster, it is one of the most massive large-scale structures in the universe, located in the direction of the constellation of the Pisces.<br /><br />“Saraswati supercluster houses at least 40-42 galaxy-cluster and more than 10,000 galaxies. Existence of such large structures was not even thought of 10-15 years ago,” Somak Raychaudhury, director, Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics and leader of the team that made the discovery, told DH.<br /><br />The popular models of universe formation cannot predict the existence of such large structures within the current age of the universe.<br /><br />The discovery is therefore likely to open up a new window for scientists to re-examine the theories of universe formation.<br /><br />A supercluster is a chain of galaxies and galaxy clusters, bound by gravity, often stretching to several hundred times the size of clusters of galaxies, consisting of tens of thousands of galaxies.<br /><br />Earth, for instance, is part of a solar system in the Milky Way galaxy that houses 200-400 billion stars. The Milky Way galaxy is part of a super cluster called the Laniakea super cluster. Laniakea, however, is a smaller one compared to the newly-discovered one.<br /><br />The Saraswati supercluster extends over 600 million light-years and may contain the mass equivalent of over 20 million billion suns. <br /><br />The team that made the discovery comprises researchers from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur and Newman College, Thodupuzha, Kerala. <br /><br />The discovery would be published in an upcoming issue of the The Astrophysical Journal.</div>
