Analysis - You may not know it, but right now there's a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads. The chief party goers are known as supermassive black holes. These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that of the Sun and are so dense that they warp space time around them.

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South African Telescope Discovers a Giant Galaxy That's 32 Times Bigger Than Earth's

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Inkathazo's glowing plasma jets are shown in red and yellow. The starlight from other surrounding galaxies can be seen in the background. K.K.L Charlton (UCT), MeerKAT, HSC, CARTA, IDIA, CC BYYou may not know it, but right now there’s a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads. The chief party goers are known as supermassive black holes. These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that of the Sun an…

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South African telescope discovers a giant galaxy that’s 32 times bigger than Earth’s

It's been a bit troublesome to understand the physics behind what's going on with Inkathazo.

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South African telescope discovers a giant galaxy that's 32 times bigger than Earth's

Cape Town: You may not know it, but right now there’s a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads. The chief partygoers are known as supermassive black holes. These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that of the Sun and are so dense that they warp space-time around them. As far as astronomers know, all galaxies harbour a supermassive black hole at their very centres. In some galaxies, large amount…

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South African telescope uncovers massive galaxy 32 times larger than Earth's Milky Way - OrissaPOST

Known as Inkathazo, meaning "trouble," a giant radio galaxy with plasma jets spanning 3.3 million light-years, has been uncovered by South Africa's MeerKAT telescope.

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S. Africa telescope discovers giant radio galaxy 32x bigger than Milky Way

Astronomers have discovered a giant radio galaxy with plasma jets stretching an incredible 3.3 million light-years—32 times the size of the Milky Way. This massive structure was found using South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope and has been nicknamed Inkathazo, which means “trouble” in isiZulu and isiXhosa. The name reflects the challenge scientists face in understanding its […] The post Astronomers spot a giant radio galaxy 32 times the size of the …

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Astronomers spot a giant radio galaxy 32 times the size of the Milky Way

You may not know it, but right now there’s a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads. The chief party goers are known as supermassive black holes. These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that of the Sun and are so dense that they warp space time around them.   As far as astronomers know, all galaxies harbour a supermassive black hole at their very centres. In […]

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You may not know it, but right now there’s a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads. The chief partygoers are known as supermassive black holes. These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that of the Sun and are so dense that they warp space-time around them. As far as astronomers know, all galaxies harbour a supermassive black hole at their very centres. In some galaxies, large amounts of inters…

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South African Telescope Discovers A Giant Galaxy That’s 32 Times Bigger Than Earth’s - Stuff South Africa

South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope has discovered a new giant radio galaxy, nicknamed ‘Inkathazo,’ meaning ‘trouble’ in Xhosa and Zulu languages, […] The post South Africa’s MeerKAT Telescope Discovers New Giant Radio Galaxy appeared first on Space in Africa.

South African Telescope Discovers a Giant Galaxy That's 32 Times Bigger Than Earth's

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