The system Abell 2384 retains the seeable consequences of its dramatic past . The two galaxy clusters that make up the system collide several hundred million years ago . The clusters make pass through each other , affecting the galaxies and producing an incredible bridgework of blistering gas between the two chemical group .
Recent observation have revealed that the bridge deck is being hit by particle driven into intergalactic quad by a supermassive black hole , bending it in the process . This rare event , described in theMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , is a windowpane into the evolution of wandflower clusters .
The team spotted the curious bridge using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in India as well as XTC - ray observations from NASA ’s Chandra and ESA ’s XMM - Newton . The cause is an fighting supermassive bootleg trap in a galax at the fringe of the southern cluster that ’s let go of two jets of subatomic particle in opposite focus . One of the green is place at the bridge circuit and is exchange its shape .
The bridge extends over 3 million faint - years and is goodly in muckle at about 6 trillion Suns . That ’s aboutfour times the mass of our own extragalactic nebula , the Milky Way . The spirt is also far away from its source , stretching for about 1.2 million wakeful - long time from its black hole before colliding with the bridge .
Interactions are common among cosmic aim . galaxy conflate with each other and so do cluster of galaxies . stargazer envision the latter as a cosmic accordion – they go through each other , stretching out the organisation , and then amount back and out again , until they eventually relax into a individual cluster . When clusters of galaxies collide , the individual galaxies do n’t needs strike each other . rather , they are more like two razz flocks coming together as one rather than a car collapse .
However , this does n’t mean that the individual galaxies are left unscathed . Observations of Abell 2384show many whorled galaxies in the cluster are no longer forming stars anymore . This is because the fundamental interaction has ransack them of precious gaseous state to take form Modern stars . Now , some of that same gun is forming the brilliant bridge that we can see in these observance .
