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This new composite image, created using X-rays from the Chandra Space Telescope (blue and purple), radio data from the MeerKAT radio telescope (orange and yellow), and an optical image from PanSTARRS (red, green, and blue), shows PLCK G287.0+32.9. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/K. Rajpurohit et al.; Optical: PanSTARRS; Radio: SARAO/MeerKAT; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk

Invisible storm illuminates galaxy cluster with record-breaking radio emission

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Astronomers have encountered the largest-ever cloud of energetic particles around a galaxy cluster, rewriting what we thought we knew about how particles stay charged.
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