X-rays reveal secret gas in huge and distant galaxy cluster

[Admin]

The Euclid and XMM-Newton missions have combined to show the hidden, hot gas that fills an immense galaxy cluster 2.7 billion light-years away.

X-rays reveal secret gas in huge and distant galaxy cluster : Read more

 

[pennyturtle]

If something on Earth was "... suffused by huge amounts of gas that can reach scorching temperatures up to 100 million degrees Celsius" it would be described as a plasma, the purview of plasma physicists and electrical engineers. They would potentially link the phenomenon with the associated magnetic and electric fields that contain and maintain that plasma.

What would it mean for theoretical cosmologists? With every observation being attempted to be explained by gravity-only models (yeah dark matter, I'm talking to you), they begin to seem like the man with a hammer, for whom everything is a nail. Well, screw that...

 

[Catastrophe]

And, would you believe it, if this "secret gas" turned out to be hydrogen, which accounts for about
74% of the total mass, together with helium, at about 24%?

Cat