X-ray and optical view of the Perseus galaxy cluster
Date: 10 January 2020
Satellite: XMM-Newton
Depicts: Perseus galaxy cluster
Copyright: ESA/XMM-Newton/DSS-II/J. Sanders et al. 2019
This image shows the Perseus galaxy cluster – one of the most massive known objects in the Universe – in X-ray and optical light, as seen by XMM-Newton's European Photon Imaging Camera (EPIC) and the Digitzed Sky Survey II, respectively.
Using XMM-Newton to study Perseus, astronomers spotted the first signs of this hot gas splashing and sloshing around – a behaviour that, while predicted, had never been seen before.
Full story: First sighting of hot gas sloshing in galaxy cluster
Last Update: 10 January 2020
