South Africa’s Radio Astronomical Observatory has detected strong emissions from two radio galaxies, one of the largest types of objects in the universe.
The team led by Dr Jacinta Delhaize from the Department of Astronomy at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) explains that the strong radio waves of these galaxies are due to a particular form of plasma rays coming from a nuclear layer galactic active. This is a very unique property of “radio galaxies”. In the “eyes” of a radio telescope, this radio signal is captured with a unique image form that allows scientists to “see” the galaxy.
Citing the study, Sci-News reported that these two radio galaxies are a remarkable 6.5 million light years, or 62 times the Milky Way. Meanwhile, the Milky Way, formerly known as the “Milky Way” due to the image of a band of light across the sky in a narrow view from the ground, was considered a “monster” in the galaxy world, quite large. devour 16 other galaxies in the past.
Dr Delhaize said the two newly discovered galaxies were named MGTC J095959.63 + 024608.6 and MGTC J100016.84 + 015133.0. The discovery is part of an international MeeKAT project aimed at building radio maps of galaxies in the universe. Finding these two new galaxies is very difficult because the radio signals they emit are fuzzy and diffuse.
“These two galaxies are special because they are among the largest known. We suspect that many of them will exist” – Dr. Mathew Prescott of the Intensive Astronomical Data Institute and their Department of Physics and Astronomy, of the ‘University of the Western Cape (South Africa), team member, said.
