UNM Newsroom / News / Making sense of the cosmos

Galaxy clusters are

Galaxy clusters are

the largest objects in the universe held together by gravity. This image of the Abell 2744 galaxy cluster combines X-rays from Chandra (diffuse blue emission) with optical light data from Hubble (red, green, and blue). Image credit: NASA

The cosmic microwave

The cosmic microwave

background, made from nine years of NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe observations. Image credit: NASA

Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Space Telescope

image of massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744, the deepest image ever made of any cluster of galaxies. Image credit: NASA

Making sense of the cosmos

UNM Assistant Professor Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine hopes to take cosmology to a new level

By Natalie Rogers July 27, 2021

Categories: Front Page College of Arts & Sciences Physics & Astronomy Research

Tags: research

Connect With UNM

Submit a Story

Do you have a suggestion for a story that illustrates excellence at UNM?

Submit A Story