Astronomers capture chaotic scene of colliding galaxy clusters

Astronomers have caught at least three colliding galaxy clusters, 780 million light-years from Earth. The event spawned a single, giant system 5.6 million light-years across. in your name Abel 2256It releases massive amounts of matter and energy into the universe.

Discovery published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysicsanalyzed data from space X-ray observatories like NASA’s Chandra, along with optical telescopes. Thus, the study provided a vision of what was going on in this turbulent and dynamically active environment.

In the image below, the new giant galaxy cluster appears as a bluish cloud of hot gas that can reach temperatures of thousands of degrees Celsius. Stars in white and yellow colors were captured at optical and infrared wavelengths.

HE galactic collision ignited a stream of particles emanating from a supermassive black hole, the jet represented by a red line labeled “C”. These particles are radio waves – electromagnetic radiation launched into space – and they can be seen in the “I” line.

As these jets interact with the heated gas, they form complex, irregular fibers defined in regions “A”, “B” and “F”. Already at the top of the image, a large reddish area similar to rippling flames, which can stretch for about 2 million light-years, is visible.

Colons called “residues”, possibly cosmic collisionAn action that creates shock waves around different merging galaxy clusters.

These observations provided high-resolution images of the region. A2256 and should make it possible to further study the chaotic and impressive radio emission throughout the event. Additionally, it could help researchers understand the composition of distant galaxies, which is the main target of the current study’s array.