NASA showed the consequences of the collision of three clusters of galaxies

Astronomers have detected the ongoing collision of at least three galaxy clusters.

To analyze the processes of this event, scientists used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA's XMM-Newton (European Space Agency) and three radio telescopes.From such collisions and mergers, clusters of galaxies grow into more massive structures, and they also "work" as the largest particle accelerators in the Universe.

Astronomers studying Abell 2256, one such supercluster, have been trying to figure out what led to this unusual structure.It turned out that the object appeared as a result of the collision of three clusters of galaxies.It is 780 million light-years away from Earth.

In a blog post, NASA published a composite image of Abell 2256.The blue color shows the X-rays recorded by the Chandra and XMM-Newton detectors.Radio data from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), the LOFAR Low-Frequency Telescope Array, and the Very Large Karl G. Array are marked in red.The Karl G.Jansky Very Large Array.Optical and infrared data are marked in white and  pale yellow, data obtained by Pan-STARR.

Galaxy clusters are some of the largest objects in the universe, containing hundreds or even thousands of individual objects.In addition, they contain huge reservoirs of superheated gas with temperatures of several million degrees Celsius .Only X-ray telescopes such as Chandra and XMM can observe it.

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On the cover: the galaxy cluster Abell 2256
Credits and Copyright: Chandra: NASA/CXC/Univ.of Bolonga/K.Rajpurohit et al.; XMM-Newton: ESA/XMM-Newton/Univ.of Bolonga/K.Rajpurohit et al; LOFAR: LOFAR/ASTRON; GMRT: NCRA/TIFR/GMRT; VLA: NSF/NRAO/VLA; Optical/IR: Pan-STARRS