{"id":236894,"date":"2026-05-11T02:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/radio-telescopes-confirm-3-3-million-light-year-halo-in-unusually-quiet-galaxy-cluster"},"modified":"2026-05-11T02:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:11:18","slug":"radio-telescopes-confirm-3-3-million-light-year-halo-in-unusually-quiet-galaxy-cluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/radio-telescopes-confirm-3-3-million-light-year-halo-in-unusually-quiet-galaxy-cluster","title":{"rendered":"Radio telescopes confirm 3.3-million-light-year halo in unusually quiet galaxy cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/radio-telescopes-confirm-3-3-million-light-year-halo-in-unusually-quiet-galaxy-cluster2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have employed the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) and the MeerKAT radio telescope to observe a galaxy cluster known as RXCJ0232\u20134420. Results of the new observations, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2604.27123\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> April 29 on the <i>arXiv<\/i> pre-print server, deliver important insights into the nature of this cluster.<\/p>\n<p>Galaxy clusters contain up to thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity. They generally form as a result of mergers and grow by accreting sub-clusters. Therefore, they could serve as excellent laboratories for studying galaxy evolution and cosmology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have employed the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) and the MeerKAT radio telescope to observe a galaxy cluster known as RXCJ0232\u20134420. Results of the new observations, published April 29 on the arXiv pre-print server, deliver important insights into the nature of this cluster. Galaxy clusters contain up to thousands of galaxies bound together [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236894","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}