Scientists search for "decaying" dark matter (DDM) because it offers unique signatures like specific X-ray or gamma-ray lines ...

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

Astronomers have employed NASA's Chandra spacecraft to perform X-ray observations of a massive galaxy cluster known as SPT-CL ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed stunning cosmic structures within galaxy clusters, like bubbles and waves, ...

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Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand ...

NASA’s Chandra telescope uses a new X-arithmetic method to compare X-ray energies and show how supermassive black holes shape galaxy clusters and galaxy groups, revealing differences in gas movement a ...

NASA’s new X‑ray images reveal how supermassive black holes sculpt galaxy clusters. Jets, bubbles, and ripples reshape cosmic ...

Roughly 2.8 billion light-years from Earth, two galaxy clusters are engaged in a cosmic tussle. These enormous structures last collided about a billion years ago, but now, it appears they’re going ...

Only one billion years after the Big Bang, clusters of galaxies were already forming. This discovery pushes back the age of the youngest known galaxy cluster by a third, and shows that the largest ...

The Hercules Galaxy Cluster, designated Abell 2151, is a rich northern cluster of galaxies located 500 million light-years distant, officially cataloged by George O. Abell. A notable feature of Abell ...