Bridge between galaxy clusters in Abell 2384 – radio view

An view of the Abell 2384 system, comprising two galaxy clusters located 1.2 billion light years from Earth, based on radio waves observations from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in India.

The two clusters, comprising each many galaxies, vast amounts of hot gas even larger amounts of unseen dark matter, are linked by a three million light-year long bridge of hot gas that shines brightly in X-rays, which has been observed with ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra X-ray observatories (not visible in this image).

A new study based on multi-wavelength analysis of this system reveals the effects of a jet (visible in the radio data) shooting away from a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy in one of the clusters.

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