image: This image shows the larger scale regions of X-ray emission enhancement where there are gas over-densities. Two of the streams of hot gas in the center connect to a much larger structure, associated with the NGC 4911 subgroup of galaxies (to the left of this image) merging with the cluster. This image measures 4.4 million light years across. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 20 Sept., 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Jeremy Sanders at Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik in Garching, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Linear Structures in the Core of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies." view more
Credit: [Image courtesy of J.S. Sanders <i>et al.</i>]