Galaxy Clusters Have Been Surrounded by High-Energy Particles for Almost Their Entire History
Updated: 2025-06-30 23:01:00
Universe Today Home Videos Podcast Newsletter Join the Club RSS Feed Galaxy Clusters Have Been Surrounded by High-Energy Particles for Almost Their Entire History By Carolyn Collins Petersen June 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM UTC Cosmology This stunning image reveals a distant galaxy cluster teeming with energy : galaxies shine in visible light white ghostly red clouds unveil a newly discovered radio mini-haloâthe most distant ever detectedâand blue wisps trace the hot gas glowing in X-rays . Credit : X-ray : NASA CXC SAO Optical : NASA ESA STScI Radio : ASTRON LOFAR Image Processing : NASA CXC SAO N . Wolk If you could see the Universe through a radio-wave eye you'd detect mini-halos of relativistic particles creating radio emissions around some galaxy clusters . Astronomers long figured those