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Discovery of Two New Giant Radio Galaxies Offers Fresh Insights Into the Universe – Gizmodo Australia

Two giant radio galaxies have been discovered with South Africa’s powerful MeerKAT telescope, located in the Karoo region, a semi-arid area in the south west of…

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Two giant radio galaxies have been discovered with South Africas powerful MeerKAT telescope, located in the Karoo region, a semi-arid area in the south west of the country. Radio galaxies get their name from the fact that they release huge beams, or jets, of radio light. These happen through the interaction between charged particles and strong magnetic fields related to supermassive black holes at the galaxies hearts.
These giant galaxies are much bigger than most of the others in the Universe and…

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