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Astronomers Discover Longest Filament of Intergalactic Gas Yet | Astronomy – Sci-News.com

Using the eROSITA X-ray telescope onboard the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) space observatory and CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP),…

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Using the eROSITA X-ray telescope onboard the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) space observatory and CSIROs Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), astronomers have spotted a 49-million-light-year-long intercluster filament in the merging galaxy cluster system Abell 3391-Abell 3395, confirming current Big Bang ideas about the origin and evolution of the Universe.
Simulation showing the distribution of hot gas (left), compared with the eROSITA X-ray image (right) of the Abell 3391-Abell…

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