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    Q&A WITH A RADIO ASTRONOMER

    Jun 18, 2020 2 minutes

    Why were you and your team drawn to study the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster?

    We decided to look at the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, following a paper published in 2016 by Norbert Werner et al, which reported a mysterious, sharp-edged curve in the X-ray image of the cluster taken using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The feature was in the hot intergalactic gas that fills the galaxy cluster, where the density

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