Vast ‘Radio Bridge’ Linking Two Merging Galaxy Clusters Discovered by Astronomers

The research team noted that so far, “only two giant intra-cluster radio bridges have been detected”.

A peculiar phenomenon has been discovered by astronomers in the depths of space, amid the merger of two galaxy clusters, Science Alert reports.

According to the media outlet, the phenomenon in question is a “low-frequency radio ‘bridge'” that spans a distance of about 6.5 million light years between the two clusters and serves as “evidence of a magnetic field connecting them in the early stage of the merging process”.

Located about 3 billion light years away, the clusters are located in a group called Abel 1758, with a total of four clusters “involved in the impending smash-up” as two pairs of them are “coming together”.

As Botteon’s team points out, “only two giant intra-cluster radio bridges have been detected to date”.

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