From :- BBC World News By :- Sophie Hardach Edited by :- Amal Udawatta Vladimír Čech Jr A rare wildcat photographed in the Doupov mountains in the Czech Republic (Credit: Vladimír Čech Jr) Wildcats are so elusive, they were thought to be extinct in parts of Europe. But they are making a comeback in some areas – and photographers and scientists are capturing unprecedented images of them. In 2020, wildlife photographer Vladimír Čech Jr was trudging through the snow in a military zone in the Doupov Mountains, a remote and rugged area in the Czech Republic. His goal: to take photos of the E...
Astronomers discover the earliest, hottest galaxy cluster in the universe, and it breaks all the rules
From :- Space.Com By :- By Keith Cooper Editted by :_ Amal Udawatta An artist's impression of the galaxy cluster in the very early universe. Containing about 30 galaxies including three with supermassive black holes (depicted here with jets), the cluster is filled with an extraordinarily hot gas (illustrated here in red). (Image credit: Lingxiao Yuan.) The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about how these cities of galaxies form. A seemingly impossible cluster of more than 30 galaxies crammed into a volume just 500,000 light-years across has been found in the universe just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang — and with a temperature that breaks all the rules. The discovery, by astronomers using Chile's Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ( ALMA ), of the galaxy cluster labeled SPT2349-56 challenges our understanding of how quickly gal...