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Galaxies are strongly clustered rather than randomly distributed.
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Clusters grow through gravitational collapse and hierarchical merging of smaller halos.
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Galaxy redshifts and velocities reveal bound populations, X-ray emission maps hot gas, gravitational lensing maps total mass, and the motions of galaxies require far more mass than visible stars alone provide.