Astronomers have So Jeong Actor | Adult Movies Onlinespotted a pair of exotic features believed to be the aftermath of a colossal cosmic smackdown — not between two galaxies, but two groupsof galaxies.
These glowing arcs of radio energy are known as "radio relics," faint clouds resulting from powerful shockwaves surging through hot gas that fills the spaceamid a galaxy cluster.
The cluster, PSZ2 G181.06+48.47, is some 963 million light-yearsfrom Earth, but its image is less forgettable than its name. Using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in India and the Very Large Array in New Mexico, a team of researchers spotted the arcs flanking the cluster like giant parentheses. The distance between the punctuation is an estimated 11 million light-years — about 100 times the span of the Milky Way.
That makes their separation a record holder — "the largest known to date," according to a paperpublished on the discovery in The Astrophysical Journal.
SEE ALSO: What cracked the Milky Way's giant cosmic bone? Scientists think they know.
An annotated view of a galaxy cluster reveals a rare pair of radio relics. Credit: Kamlesh Rajpurohit et al / https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adbbb9 Galaxies are often part of larger collections of galaxies, held together by gravity, according to NASA. These groups and clusters, containing hundreds to thousands of galactic neighborhoods, serve as building blocks for the larger structures of the universe. Clusters are also composed of scorching gas that reaches millions of degrees as well as dark matter, an invisible material that scientists don't yet fully understand.
The team, led by Kamlesh Rajpurohit, an astronomer at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, thinks the newfound radio relics formed when shock fronts sped through space following two clusters wrecking. These waves can force particles to shine in radio light.
Though these two come as a pair, they're not identical twins. The researchers describe the northernmost glow as brighter and polarized, meaning its light is moving in the same direction. Its companion to the south has a stranger ghostly shape and an energy pattern that may mean it was caused by a more powerful shockwave.
Using an enormous telescope in India and the Very Large Array in New Mexico, pictured above, a team of researchers spotted the arcs flanking the cluster like giant parentheses. Credit: Bettymaya Foott / NRAO / AUI / NSF The relics suggest the entire cluster is in the final throes of a merger set in motion a billion years before.
In the past, astronomers have dubbed clusters fun nicknames based on the shapes of their relics, such as the Toothbrush Cluster. Perhaps in the future this one will leave behind its numerical moniker for something a bit snazzier, like the Eyebrows Cluster or the Air Quotes Cluster. Until that time, you can call it Planck cluster G181+48 for short, Rajpurohit said.
Scientists discovered one other curiosity between the relics: a faint glow at the center of the cluster. This could be a so-called "radio halo," another kind of radio source that emerges when churning gas and particles create turbulence after a violent cosmic crash.
Astronomers have previously detected less than 30 such clusters with relic pairs. But the upcoming Square Kilometre Array being built in South Africa and Australia could be a "game changer," according to the paper's authors.
"There could potentially be many more awaiting discovery in the era of large radio surveys," they said.
UPDATE: May. 7, 2025, 10:55 a.m. EDT This story has been updated to include additional data from the paper's author on the estimated distance of the galaxy cluster from Earth.
Bomb Envy
Where's the AI in these 'AI
Elon Musk confirms X accounts with certain subscriber levels will get Premium bonuses
Elon Musk says Mars ship could make first flights in 2019
How to Easily Make iPhone Ringtones Using Only iTunes
Meta and Google fuel abortion misinformation across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, report finds
Arizona vs. Clemson basketball livestreams: How to watch live
Trump wants to create a military branch called 'Space Force' and the internet lost it
Best IPL deal: Save $80 on Braun IPL Silk·Expert
Israel reportedly using facial recognition and Google Photos to conduct mass surveillance in Gaza
Watch how an old Venus spacecraft tumbled before crashing to Earth
Skates in the deep sea may incubate eggs near 'black smoker' vents
FCC's Ajit Pai lends support to a huge SpaceX satellite constellation
'3 Body Problem' creators on *that* horrifying scene from episode 5
Contingent No More
Best gift card deal: A $100 DoorDash gift card is down to just $85 at Best Buy.
Best Nintendo Switch game deal: Save $10 on the recently
EPA's Scott Pruitt says next flight will be in coach, not first class
Skype is finally shutting down
Apple users targeted by annoying 'Reset Password' attack
'Halloween Kills' will stream on Peacock the same day it hits theaters'Malignant' hides its twist in plain sight: 6 easter eggs you missedSwiss Olympic skier Fabian Bösch rides the escalator with one armMary Elizabeth Winstead kills it in Netflix's 'Kate': ReviewWhy do brands want your home to smell like meat so badly?'LulaRich' tells a baffling story of greed, crime, and crappy leggings'Only Murders in the Building' brought fans together with TieHow to follow the Olympics on TwitterTinder users are changing their locations to match with athletes at the Winter OlympicsPyeongchang Opening Ceremony was all about 'Gangnam Style' in 2018U.S. snowboarder Chloe Kim tweets about ice cream in between qualifying runsOlympians from North and South Korea are taking selfies togetherThis mouse riding on a cop's windshield is public enemy no. 1Snowboarder recovers from horrific accident to win Olympic medalZendaya shares ingenious way she copes with stressNo, Walmart will not be accepting Litecoin. Here's how people were duped.This mouse riding on a cop's windshield is public enemy no. 1How to support sex trafficking survivors without harming consenting sex workers'Mogul Mowgli' is Riz Ahmed's soul laid bare: ReviewApple warns against mounting iPhones to motorcycles Issue No. 250: A Crossword by Adrienne Raphel The City Is Covered in Snow: From the Notebooks of Orhan Pamuk by Orhan Pamuk The Cookbook Review by The Paris Review The Living Death Drug by Lisa Carver What I Want to Say About Owning a Truck by J. D. Daniels Fourth Sleeper: Rachel Sindler by Sophie Calle Glimmer: In Siena by Cynthia Zarin Bite by Morgan Thomas A Missive Sent Straight from the Mayhem: On Michelle Tea’s Valencia by Maggie Nelson James Baldwin in Istanbul by Osman Can Yerebakan Remembering Gary Indiana (1950–2024) by The Paris Review Announcing the 2025 George Plimpton and Susannah Hunnewell Prizewinners by The Paris Review A Journey Through Four Gyms by Vivian Hu The Marriage Dividend by Laurie Stone A Certain Kind of Romantic by Edward Hirsch The Best Books of 2024, According to Friends of the Review: Part One by The Paris Review Meaning by Richard Russo Arachnids by Daniel Poppick The Paris Review – Style Is Joy: On Iris Apfel by Dorothea Lasky Mallarmé’s Poetry of the Void by Quentin Meillassoux
1.9917s , 10132.3515625 kb
Copyright © 2025 Powered by 【So Jeong Actor | Adult Movies Online】,Unobstructed Information Network