Imágenes directas del flujo de enfriamiento en el cúmulo Phoenix

Michael Reefe1, Michael McDonald2, Marios Chatzikos3

  • 1Kavli Institute for Astrophsyics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. mreefe@mit.edu.

Nature
|February 5, 2025
PubMed
Resumen

Los cúmulos de galaxias enfrentan un problema de flujo de enfriamiento, donde el gas caliente debería enfriarse pero no lo hace. Las nuevas observaciones del Telescopio Espacial James Webb revelan eventos de enfriamiento rápido en el cúmulo de Phoenix, desafiando las suposiciones anteriores sobre la retroalimentación del agujero negro.

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