Intergalactic “sloshing” of hot gas. (IMAGE)

Tokyo Metropolitan University

Intergalactic “sloshing” of hot gas.

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Intergalactic “sloshing” of hot gas. Collisions between clusters generate a “sloshing” effect for the intracluster medium, causing vast flows of gas that cause the content of the clusters to oscillate.

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