Directly imaging the cooling flow in the Phoenix cluster

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08369-xObservations of the Phoenix cluster using the James Webb Space Telescope reveal rapid cooling in galaxy cluster cores, driven by black hole jets, with gas temperatures mapped between 105 K and 106 K and cooling rates of 5,000–23,000 M⊙ yr−1.

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Directly imaging the cooling flow in the Phoenix cluster

Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08369-xObservations of the Phoenix cluster using the James Webb Space Telescope reveal rapid cooling in galaxy cluster cores, driven by black hole jets, with gas temperatures mapped between 105 K and 106 K and cooling rates of 5,000–23,000 M⊙ yr−1.