University of Wisconsin-Madison reveals 63 enormous Giant Radio Galaxies, each spanning 2.3 million light years, uncovering rare cosmic phenomena using innovative technology.
22 January 2021, 1:07 am EST By
Two new giant radio galaxies have been discovered by the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE). As Science The Wire reports, the findings were acquired from the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cape Town, South Africa. The cutting-egde telescope has captured radio galaxies which is too faint to be seen by other telescopes. Furthermore, the findings suggest that there s a huge chance giant radio galaxies are more common than we thought.
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Findings of the Giant Radio Galaxies Study
The study has been published in the Oxford Academic journals of the Royal Astronomical Society. In an interview via eNCA, Dr. Jacinta Delhaize, a fellow researcher at the University of Cape Town shares her insights about their latest discovery. Dr. Delhaize says these two new giant radio galaxies are a very rare discovery. They belong to among the largest objects in their universe. Thei