Scientists are pondering whether they've discovered a new form of physics.
New observations of a far-flung galaxy cluster have left a group of scientists stumped as they ponder whether they've discovered a new form of physics., researchers Tessa Vernstrom of The University of Western Australia and Christopher Reisely from Italy's Università di Bologna describe how their discovery of a series of large, low frequency radio wave-emitting objects in a galaxy cluster about 800 million light-years away appear to defy the laws of physics.
Using radio and X-Ray telescopes, the researchers discovered three large, radio wave-emitting objects — a fossil radio emission, a radio relic, and a radio halo — within the Abell 3266 galaxy cluster.Zoom In These three objects were all too faint to detect until the researchers applied a complicated algorithm to the telescope imagery of the galaxy cluster — and in doing so, found the ancient remnants of a supermassive black hole that created the galaxy cluster.
Abell 3266's radio relic in particular caught the researchers' attention, a sonic boom-like arc of radio waves that are "powered by shockwaves [traveling] through the plasma," asThis relic is unlike any radio object scientists have ever seen before, according to the team, due to its highly unusual concave shape, earning it its "wrong-way relic" nickname.
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