{"id":111501,"date":"2016-11-23T11:19:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T09:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=111501"},"modified":"2016-11-23T11:20:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T09:20:48","slug":"cape-town-scientists-have-discovered-one-of-the-largest-objects-in-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/111501-cape-town-scientists-have-discovered-one-of-the-largest-objects-in-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town scientists have discovered one of the largest objects in the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through the thick fog of our own galaxy, astronomers have spotted an ultimate prize: one of the largest-known structures in the Universe, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/astronomers-have-discovered-one-of-the-most-massive-objects-in-the-universe\" target=\"_blank\">Science Alert<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Cape Town team discovered a previously-unknown major concentration of galaxies in the constellation Vela, which they have dubbed the Vela supercluster.<\/p>\n<p>Observations in 2012 with the refurbished spectrograph of the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) confirmed that eight new clusters reside within the Vela area. Subsequent spectroscopic observations with the Anglo-Australian Telescope in Australia provided thousands of galaxy redshifts and revealed the vast extent of this new structure.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Ren\u00e9e Kraan-Korteweg from the University of Cape Town, who led this study and has been investigating this region for more than a decade, said: \u201cI could not believe such a major structure would pop up so prominently,\u201d when she and her colleagues analysed the spectra of the new survey.<\/p>\n<p>There is still much for the team to do however &#8211; further follow-up observations are needed to unveil the full extent, mass, and influence of the Vela supercluster.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to Jeremy Clarkson and friends announce new social network\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/111455-jeremy-clarkson-and-friends-announce-new-social-network.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Jeremy Clarkson and friends announce new social network<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South African-led team have have discovered one of the largest known objects in the universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":111503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,22429,23371,23373,1447,2163,23369,20810],"class_list":["post-111501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-active","tag-cape-tow","tag-largest","tag-massve","tag-science","tag-south-africa","tag-structure","tag-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111505,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111501\/revisions\/111505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}