A public lecture by world-renowned cosmologist Rashid Sunyaev, Professor, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.
Galaxies like our own Milky Way contain hundreds of billions of stars; however, they are miniscule compared to the largest known objects in the universe, galaxy clusters. These clusters, which contain thousands of galaxies, are among the most extreme environments konwn. They are full of mysterious dark matter and are suffused with gas at temperatures of millions of degrees, farh otter than the Sun. This lecture will highlight our recent advances in observations of galaxy clusters and discuss how they may be used to map out the structure of the universe and cast light on the enigmatic dark energy thought to pervade all of space.
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