Intracluster medium
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In astronomy, the intracluster medium is the superheated plasma that permeates a galaxy cluster. The gas consists mainly of ionized hydrogen and helium and accounts for most of the baryonic material i
The overlaid blue cloud illustrates the intracluster medium around the Spiderweb Galaxy, as seen when the universe was 3 billion years old.
Chandra image of the Perseus Cluster's radio lobes. These relativistic jets of plasma emit radio waves, are X-ray "cold", and appear as dark patches in stark contrast to the rest of the ICM.
Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect
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The Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect is the spectral distortion of the cosmic microwave background through inverse Compton scattering by high-energy electrons in galaxy clusters, in which the low-energy CMB p
First measurements of the thermal Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array with one of the most massive galaxy clusters known, RX J1347.5-1145.