Suzaku snaps first complete X-ray view of a galaxy cluster
Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 11:07
in Astronomy & Space
The joint Japan-U.S. Suzaku mission is providing new insight into how assemblages of thousands of galaxies pull themselves together. For the first time, Suzaku has detected X-ray-emitting gas at a cluster's outskirts, where a billion-year plunge to the center begins.