https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105528/87/1055288794_0:397:1920:1477_1200x675_80_0_0_494c0139d728f53f0cf3207d3ebf3332.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Andrei Dergalin. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/science/202008261080285569-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”. “We confirm the presence of a giant […]
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