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  • The Cheshire Cat group of galaxies

    11/23/2015 12:45:04 PM PST · by sparklite2 · 17 replies
    EarthSky ^ | Nov 23, 2015 | Deborah Byrd
    …the mass that distorts the faraway galactic light is found surrounding the two giant 'eye' galaxies and a 'nose' galaxy. The multiple arcs of the circular 'face' arise from gravitational lensing of four different background galaxies well behind the 'eye' galaxies. Chandra also said that that its x-ray observations show that that the two eyes of the cat - and the smaller galaxies associated with them - are slamming into one another in a colossal collision between galaxies: Each 'eye' galaxy is the brightest member of its own group of galaxies and these two groups are racing toward one...