GMRT radio image of the central region of the Hydra Cluster (IMAGE)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

GMRT radio image of the central region of the Hydra Cluster

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The “head” of the Flying Fox discovered this time points to the south-west (lower right). The Flying Fox has a “wingspan” of 220,000 light years. The white contours in the background show the X-ray surface brightness as observed by ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite.

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Kohei Kurahara

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