El Gordo — which means "the fat one" in Spanish — is officially known as ACT-CL J0102-4915 and "is located more than 7 billion light-years from Earth, at a time when the universe was half its ...

Where it is: El Gordo galaxy cluster, around 7 billion light-years from Earth. Why it's so special: For the first time, researchers have sketched out the invisible magnetic field of a gigantic ...

On Thursday, the winner of the world-famous El Gordo lottery will be announced. The lotto has been held in Spain for more than two centuries, having been founded in 1812, according to The U.S. Sun .

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently imaged a massive galaxy cluster called “El Gordo” (Spanish for “The Fat One”) that contains hundreds of galaxies and existed when the universe was ...

And, as the BBC says, it's possible El Gordo will help us figure out how galaxy clusters "form, grow and collide with one another." Sponsor Message. NASA adds that "galaxy clusters, ...

El Gordo is a massive collection of colliding galaxies 7 billion light-years away. Its odd behavior could mean dark matter interacts with itself, challenging the standard model of cosmology.