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    Phoenix Cluster - Wikipedia

    • The Phoenix Cluster (SPT-CL J2344-4243) is a massive, Abell class type I galaxy cluster located at its namesake, southern constellation of Phoenix. It was initially detected in 2010 during a 2,500 square degree survey of the southern sky using the Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect by the South Pole Telescope collaboration. It is one of the most massive galax… See more

    Constellation(s)Phoenix
    Right ascension23ʰ 44ᵐ 40.9ˢ
    Declination−42° 41′ 54″
    Brightest memberPhoenix A (mag 18.2)
    Discovery

    The Phoenix Cluster was first reported in a paper by R. Williamson and colleagues during a survey by the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica, being one of the 26 galaxy clusters identified by the survey. The detection h… See more

    Characteristics

    Owing to its extreme properties, the Phoenix Cluster has been extensively studied and is considered one of the most important class of objects of its type. A multiwavelength observational study by M. McDonald … See more

    Phoenix Cluster - HubbleSite
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    The central elliptical cD galaxy of this cluster, Phoenix A (RBS 2043, 2MASX J23444387-4243124), hosts an active galactic nucleus that has been described as sharing both the properties of being a quasar and … See more

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  1. Massive, Abell class type I galaxy cluster
    The Phoenix Cluster (SPT-CL J2344-4243) is a massive, Abell class type I galaxy cluster located at its namesake, southern constellation of Phoenix. It was initially detected in 2010 during a 2,500 square degree survey of the southern sky using the Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect by the South Pole Telescope collaboration.

    Phoenix Cluster - Wikipedia

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    Galaxy clusters like Phoenix are, as the name suggests, a cluster of hundreds or even thousands of galaxies held together by gravity and permeated with dark matter and hot gas. When the hot gas cools, star formation happens.

    Phoenix cluster is cooling faster than exp…

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    What is a Phoenix Cluster?
    The Phoenix galaxy cluster contains the first confirmed supermassive black hole that is unable to prevent large numbers of stars from forming in the core of the galaxy cluster where it resides. The Phoenix Cluster system has several distinct elements that help tell the story of its unusually high star formation.

    Phoenix Cluster - HubbleSite

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    What is a galaxy cluster like Phoenix?
    Galaxy clusters like Phoenix are, as the name suggests, a cluster of hundreds or even thousands of galaxies held together by gravity and permeated with dark matter and hot gas. When the hot gas cools, star formation happens. Given the amount of hot gas in galaxy clusters, astronomers expected to find large nurseries of young stars.

    Phoenix cluster is cooling faster than expected - MIT News

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    Why are stars forming in the Phoenix Cluster?
    Stars are forming in the Phoenix cluster at the highest rate ever observed for the middle of a galaxy cluster. The object also is the most powerful producer of X-rays of any known cluster and among the most massive. The data also suggest the rate of hot gas cooling in the central regions of the cluster is the largest ever observed.

    Phoenix Cluster Sets Record Pace at Forming Stars

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    How can astronomers understand the Phoenix Cluster?
    New observations of the galaxy cluster SPT-CLJ2344-4243 (or Phoenix Cluster) at X-ray, ultraviolet, and optical wavelengths are helping astronomers better understand this extraordinary system. Chandra data reveal large cavities in the X-rays, which are shown with optical data from Hubble.

    A fresh perspective on the extraordinary Phoenix galaxy cluster

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    How many stars does the Phoenix Cluster produce a year?
    The galaxy cluster produces more than 700 new stars per year, while regular galaxies produce one new star every few years. As a result, this cluster houses three trillion stars, compared to the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way. So how does the Phoenix Cluster stay cool? There must be less energy at its center.

    Phoenix Cluster - California Academy of Sciences

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    How was the Phoenix cluster detected?
    The Phoenix Cluster was originally detected by the South Pole Telescope, using the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, as explained in more detail in a blog interview with the first author of the paper, Michael McDonald.

    Chandra :: Photo Album :: Phoenix Cluster :: August 15, 2012

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    The Biggest Black Hole In The Universe - WorldAtlas

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    Phoenix Cluster - HubbleSite

    Nov 18, 2019 · The Phoenix Cluster is a system that contains a supermassive black hole that cannot prevent star formation in its core. It also has jets, bubbles, and filaments of cooler gas that reveal its history of outbursts and interactions.

  5. Center for Astrophysics
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    Phoenix Cluster Sets Record Pace at Forming Stars

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    A Fresh Perspective on an Extraordinary Cluster of Galaxies

  7. Chandra X-ray Observatory
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    Chandra :: Photo Album :: Phoenix Cluster :: August 15, …

    Stars are forming in the Phoenix Cluster at the highest rate ever observed for the middle of a galaxy cluster. The object is also the most powerful producer of X-rays of any known cluster, and among the most massive of clusters.

  8. YouTube
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    A Tour of the Phoenix Cluster - YouTube

  9. MIT News
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    Phoenix cluster is cooling faster than expected - MIT …

    Nov 20, 2019 · The Phoenix cluster is a galaxy cluster with a large amount of cool gas that allows new stars to form. Learn how astronomers used three telescopes to study this phenomenon and what makes it so unusual.

  10. California Academy of Sciences
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    Phoenix Cluster | California Academy of Sciences

    About 5.7 billion light years from Earth lies a strange galaxy cluster that’s setting the record for both size and pace of star formation. The South Pole Telescope discovered a large group of galaxies orbiting one another, bound together by …

  11. Astronomy Now
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    A fresh perspective on the extraordinary Phoenix …

    Oct 1, 2015 · The Phoenix Cluster, also known as SPT-CLJ2344-4243, is a galaxy cluster with the highest rate of cooling hot gas and star formation ever seen in its centre. It has massive filaments of gas and dust, large X-ray …