May 7, 2017

X-ray image of the hot gas in the Perseus galaxy cluster (Image NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Stephen Walker et al.)

An article published in the journal “Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society” describes the discovery of a large wave of hot gas in the Perseus galaxy cluster that extends for about 200,000 light years. A team of astronomers led by Dr. Stephen Walker of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center combined observations with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and others at radio frequencies with computer simulations to study it.