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Mysterious phenomena in a gigantic galaxy-cluster collision

10 March 2015 Astronomy Now

Researchers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have produced the most detailed image yet of an ongoing collision of galaxy clusters in a region called Abell 2256, revealing that unexpected processes are at work in such encounters.