| |
These features are called, somewhat irreverently, the fingers of God. In more extended systems such as superclusters, the peculiar motions are not so large but they are discernible because they are coherent.
Present-day structures exhibit this range, with galaxies surrounding rich clusters showing the squashing effect, much as seen in the complexities of the Hubble flow between here and the Virgo core, and rich clusters showing "fingers of God" in their ...
 See also: Galaxies, Isotropy, Distance, Cluster, Sky
  
|
RSS
