November 14, 2021

The radio tracks of a powerful merger in progress between two or more massive groups of gas and galaxies in the cluster MCXC J0352.4-7401

An article accepted for publication in the journal “Astronomy & Astrophysics” offers an overview of the results of the MGCLS (MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey) project, which covers 115 galaxy clusters. A team of researchers led by Kenda Knowles of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, used the MeerKAT radio telescope for a total of approximately 1,000 hours of observations to obtain images that were processed and analyzed. These are only the first results of an investigation that can bring new information on the processes taking place in those 115 clusters.