'Smashing' Galaxy Clusters Release 'Amazing Amounts of Energy' | Video

By Steve Spaleta | January 11, 2017 11:37am ET

2 billion light-years away, galaxy clusters Abell 3411 and Abell 3412  are colliding. Observations using the Chandra X-ray Telescope and other telescopes has revealed evidence of black hole eruptions creating a “jet of high-speed and energetic particles,” according to the Chandra team.

credit : NASA/CXC/SAO/R. van Weeren et al; Optical: NAOJ/Subaru

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