A groundbreaking discovery, recently detailed in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, has unveiled a “mini halo” surrounding one of the most distant galaxy clusters observed to date. This mini halo, ...

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Such a mini-halo consists of highly energetic charged particles in the vacuum between galaxies in a cluster, which together emanate radio waves which we can detect from Earth. The discovery shows that ...

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Astronomers have uncovered a vast cloud of energetic particles surrounding one of the most distant galaxy clusters ever ...

Astronomers have uncovered a vast cloud of energetic particles—a "mini halo"—surrounding one of the most distant galaxy ...