Galaxy Cluster MS 0735 -Daily Image from NASA's Great Fleet of Observatories

Galaxy Cluster  MS 0735 is located about 2.6 billion light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis.

The optical view of the galaxy cluster, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys in February 2006, shows dozens of galaxies bound together by gravity.

Hot gas with a temperature of nearly 50 million degrees permeates the space between the galaxies. The gas emits X-rays, seen as blue in the image taken with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The X-ray portion of the image shows enormous holes or cavities in the gas, each roughly 640,000 light-years in diameter — nearly seven times the diameter of the Milky Way.

The cavities are filled with charged particles gyrating around magnetic field lines and emitting radio waves shown in the red portion of image taken with the Very Large Array telescope in New Mexico.

The cavities were created by jets of charged particles ejected at nearly light speed from a super-massive black hole weighing nearly a billion times the mass of our Sun lurking in the nucleus of the bright central galaxy. The jets displaced more than one trillion solar masses worth of gas. The power required to displace the gas exceeded the power output of the Sun by nearly ten trillion times in the past 100 million years.

Posted by Jason McManus.

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Story Links:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007astro.ph..1386G
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2006/51/image/a/


Hubble and Chandra Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, STScI, and B. McNamara (University of Waterloo)
Very Large Array Telescope Image Credit: NRAO, and L. Birzan and team (Ohio Unive