{"id":217038,"date":"2025-07-02T18:23:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/astonishing-halo-of-high-energy-particles-around-giant-galaxy-cluster-is-a-glimpse-into-the-early-universe"},"modified":"2025-07-02T18:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:23:19","slug":"astonishing-halo-of-high-energy-particles-around-giant-galaxy-cluster-is-a-glimpse-into-the-early-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/astonishing-halo-of-high-energy-particles-around-giant-galaxy-cluster-is-a-glimpse-into-the-early-universe","title":{"rendered":"Astonishing \u2018halo\u2019 of high-energy particles around giant galaxy cluster is a glimpse into the early universe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The discovery, made with the LOFAR<\/a> (LOw Frequency ARray) radio instrument in Europe, indicates that galaxy clusters, which are some of the largest structures in the known universe<\/a>, spend most of their existence wrapped in envelopes of high-energy particles.<\/p>\n

This insight gives scientists a better idea of how energy flows around galaxy clusters<\/a>. And that in turn could improve our picture of cosmic evolution, study members said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s astonishing to find such a strong radio signal at this distance,\u201d study co-leader Roland Timmerman, an astronomer at Durham University in England, said in a statement.<\/a> \u201cIt means these energetic particles and the processes creating them have been shaping galaxy clusters for nearly the entire history of the universe<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The discovery, made with the LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio instrument in Europe, indicates that galaxy clusters, which are some of the largest structures in the known universe, spend most of their existence wrapped in envelopes of high-energy particles. This insight gives scientists a better idea of how energy flows around galaxy clusters. And that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}