There is a deep connection between some of the largest, most energetic events in the universe and much smaller, weaker ones powered by our own Sun.
The results come from a long observation
with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory of Abell 2146, a pair of colliding galaxy clusters located about 2.8 billion light years from Earth.
Galaxy clusters contain hundreds of
galaxies and huge amounts of hot gas and dark matter and are among
the largest structures in the universe. Collisions between galaxy clusters
release enormous amounts of energy unlike anything witnessed since the big bang
and provide scientists with physics laboratories that are unavailable here on
Earth.
Learn
more: Colossal Collisions Linked to Solar System Science
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Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Nottingham/H. Russell et al.; Optical:
NAOJ/Subaru
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