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Old 28-02-2020, 03:34 PM
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Radio fossil of largest known explosion since the Big Bang discovered

Astronomers studying the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, about 390 million
light-years away, have come to the realization that a cavity within
the cluster's plasma which had been detected previously with X-ray telescopes
betrays the radio fossil record of what they describe as the largest
known explosion in the Universe since the Big Bang.

The discovery was made using four telescopes; NASA’s Chandra X-ray
Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in
Western Australia and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India.

Press release here including images :-
https://www.icrar.org/kaboom/

The finding has been reported in a paper entitled ‘‘Discovery of a giant
radio fossil in the Ophiuchus Galaxy Cluster’, published in The Astrophysical
Journal on February 28th, 2020.

A copy can be found here at arXiv :-
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.01291.pdf
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Old 13-03-2020, 01:14 AM
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It's hurting my brain just trying to comprehend the sheer scale of that cosmic explosion lol
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