"Galaxy clusters" refers to groups of galaxies that are bound together by gravity. They are like neighborhoods in space where many galaxies live close to each other.
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A study
of galaxy clusters independently confirms that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace.
Dark matter was first proposed more than 70 years ago to explain why the force of gravity
in galaxy clusters is so much stronger than expected.
In fact, the colors represent dark matter, galaxies and hot gas formed from the collision of
massive galaxy clusters.
[2] All objects that have mass affect the space around them in this way, but huge clumps of mass
like galaxy clusters do so more strongly.
An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant massive
galaxy cluster with a core bursting with new stars.
The researchers are now looking to identify more
galaxy clusters using this technique, with the aim of looking further back in time to the earliest stage of cluster formation.
As a galaxy moves through a
dense galaxy cluster, the cluster's hot gas blows away the cooler gas in the galaxy.
Dark energy seems to cause the expansion of the universe to accelerate, while dark matter helps hold galaxies and
galaxy clusters together.
The answer lies in its density, and according to a group of American astronomers the distortion of light by the gravity of
nearby galaxy clusters may provide a way to measure it.
Very large yet faint galaxies have been found where no one would have expected them — in the middle of a
giant galaxy cluster.
But current numerical simulations of
how galaxy clusters form suggest they should be in areas with much hotter and less dense gas.
As it moves from the top left to the bottom right, its tail fans out across the
green galaxy cluster.
Later this year, astronomers will begin a new sky survey to look for signs of the stuff among exploding stars and
ancient galaxy clusters.
A new study that examines the growth of
galaxy clusters rather than the movement of stars independently confirms the presence of dark energy.
Self - driving vehicles, battery alternatives and analyses of
galaxy clusters claim top prizes at global high school science competition.
Unfortunately, at a temperature of just a few million degrees (much cooler than the extremely hot gas
in galaxy clusters), it is extremely hard to detect.
In our local universe,
massive galaxy clusters form over millions, or even billions, of years as smaller galaxies move closer due to gravitational attraction.
This so - called «cold» dark matter accurately describes large - scale structures
like galaxy clusters.
The new model is expected to motivate studies
of galaxy clusters and groups, as well as the development of other unified models of high - energy cosmic particles.
In addition, the images also reveal an
ancient galaxy cluster — a densely populated «galaxy city» formed when the universe was just 3 billion years old.
Astronomers took advantage of this «gravitational lensing» to study the dark matter within
galaxy cluster Abell 3827 (above), where a distant blue galaxy's light spirals around four galaxies.
While originally observing
galaxy cluster MACS J1149 +2223, 5 billion light years away, using the Hubble Space Telescope, the researchers noticed a flickering light in the background.
Using the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that the brightest galaxies
within galaxy clusters «wobble» relative to the cluster's centre of mass.
The Heidelberg research was based on long - exposure images of the
Perseus galaxy cluster obtained in 2012 with the 4.2 metre William Herschel Telescope on the Canary Island of La Palma.
The pair of elliptical galaxies is embedded deep inside the dense
galaxy cluster known as SDSS J1531 +3414.
It might not be measurable on local scales, like here in the solar system, or in any matter - strewn environs, such
as galaxy clusters.
You are better able to hone in on what is going on in some very active galactic cores and also how much dark matter is distributed among and
between galaxy cluster members.
A massive
galaxy cluster called SPT - CL J0615 - 5746 sits in the foreground of the newly discovered SPT0615 - JD.
As the universe expanded, those dark matter seeds spread out into a «cosmic web,» linking
galaxy clusters at the densest points with thin filaments of dark matter.
Fritz Zwicky used it for the first time to declare the observed phenomena consistent with dark matter observations as the rotational speeds of galaxies and orbital velocities of galaxies in clusters, gravitational lensing of background objects
by galaxy clusters such as the Bullet cluster, and the temperature distribution of hot gas in galaxies and clusters of galaxies.
The newest target of Hubble's mission is the
distant galaxy cluster Abell S1063, potentially home to billions of strange new worlds.
Then two massive
colliding galaxy clusters in the constellation Carina caught the attention of Marusa Bradac of the Kavli Institute at Stanford University and her colleagues, who saw this cosmic smashup as a chance to watch dark matter in action.
The dark matter behavior that fits the
observed galaxy clustering best comes from dark matter made of particles that are massive and weakly interacting, meaning that they do not feel the stronger forces like electromagnetism or the nuclear forces and respond only to gravity.
These structures can be traced over more than 80 million light - years in the COSMOS survey - approximately five times the extent of the nearby
Virgo galaxy cluster.
This spectacular view from the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the
rich galaxy cluster Abell 1689.
Acting as a «natural telescope» in space, the gravity of the extremely massive
foreground galaxy cluster MACS J2129 - 0741 magnifies, brightens, and distorts the far - distant background galaxy MACS2129 - 1, shown in the top box.
In addition to my Frontier Fields work, I am leading a large new Hubble program called RELICS to observe 41 more
lensing galaxy clusters.
Here are images of six different
galaxy clusters taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (blue) and Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink) in a study of how dark matter in clusters of galaxies behaves when the clusters collide.
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have led to the discovery of what is claimed to be the most distant
galaxy cluster ever found.
This type of «feeding» mechanism
for galaxy clusters — where gas from the merging of galaxies is converted to new stars — is rare.