Twelve Indian researchers across three countries have discovered a rare, nonconformist radio galaxy, shaped like a bow and arrow and 1.8 million light years wide, located approximately 2 billion light years from Earth.
A light year is about 5.88 trillion miles.
The discovery of the source—named RAD-BAARG (Bow-And-Arrow Radio Galaxy)—was made using data from the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey (LoTSS), one of the deepest radio surveys ever conducted at low frequencies.
In RAD-BAARG, the researchers say one of the jets appears to interact with a large bow shock-like structure formed as the host galaxy falls through the surrounding hot gas toward a nearby cluster of galaxies.
A radio galaxy, powered by supermassive black holes at its core, is a type of active galaxy that emits very high amounts of energy in the form of radio waves.
Source: PIB
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