Fade through of galaxy cluster images | Hubble Space Telescope

Fade through of galaxy cluster images | Hubble Space Telescope

This video fades through NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope images of six galaxy clusters. The clusters were observed in a study of how dark matter in clusters of galaxies behaves when the clusters collide. Seventy-two large cluster collisions were studied in total.

By finding that dark matter interacts even less than we thought, the team have successfully narrowed down the properties of dark matter.

The clusters shown here are, in order of appearance: MACS J0416.1–2403, MACS J0152.5-2852, MACS J0717.5+3745, Abell 370, Abell 2744 and ZwCl 1358+62

Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Harvey (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland), R. Massey (Durham University, UK), the Hubble SM4 ERO Team, ST-ECF, ESO, D. Coe (STScI), J. Merten (Heidelberg/Bologna), HST Frontier Fields, Harald Ebeling(University of Hawaii at Manoa), Jean-Paul Kneib (LAM)and Johan Richard (Caltech, USA)
Release Date: March 26, 2015

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