Sample of Brightest Cluster Galaxies

This sample of galaxies, as seen by Hubble, shows chains of star formation in ultraviolet light. This star formation in each galaxy is a product of the action of the jets from a central black hole that controls infalling gas from the galaxy's halo.

About the data

Data for galaxies taken with the ACS/SBC instrument were obtained from proposal: 12220 , PI: R. Mittal (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) et al.

The ACS/SBC BCG science team comprises: G. Tremblay (Yale University/ESO), C. O’Dea and S. Baum (University of Manitoba/RIT), R. Mittal (RIT/Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics), M. McDonald (Kavli Institute/MIT), F. Combes (Observatoire de Paris/CNRS), Y. Li (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), B. McNamara (Waterloo University, Ontario/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), M. Bremer (University of Bristol, UK), T. Clarke (Naval Research Laboratory), M. Donahue (Michigan State University), A. Edge (Durham University), A. Fabian (Institute of Astronomy), S. Hamer (Observatoire de Paris/CNRS), M. Hogan (Waterloo University, Ontario), J. Oonk (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy), A. Quillen (University of Rochester), J. Sanders (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics), P. Salomé (Observatoire de Paris/CNRS), and M. Voit (Michigan State University).