The discovery, made with the LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio instrument in Europe, indicates that galaxy clusters, which ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant mini-halo ever seen—10 billion light-years away—revealing that galaxy clusters ...

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of ...

An early universe radio jet spanning an astonishing 200,000 light years has been discovered by the International Gemini ...

The discovery marks the most distant mini halo ever found, doubling the distance of any previously known example. It offers ...

LOFAR is a massive radio telescope that comprises 100,000 antennas spread across eight European countries. The researchers ...

Scientists have discovered the farthest-ever 'mini-halo,' a sea of charged particles around a distant galaxy cluster that ...

Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...

LOFAR detects a faint radio 'mini-halo' from 3.8 billion years ago, revealing how galaxy clusters evolved in the early ...

Such a mini-halo consists of highly energetic charged particles in the vacuum between galaxies in a cluster, which together emanate radio waves which we can detect from Earth. The discovery shows that ...

Astronomers have uncovered a vast cloud of energetic particles—a "mini halo"—surrounding one of the most distant galaxy clusters ever observed, marking a major step forward in understanding the hidden ...