Tag: Lobes

Giant Radio Galaxy and it’s Titanic Emission

ryanLeave a comment
The Milky Way is a decently big Galaxy.  At 100,000 light years across, it is a full size barred spiral galaxy and distinctly different from what we would call ‘dwarf galaxies.’  But there are much larger galaxies in the universe.  Most reside near the centre of a massive galaxy cluster and are the result of Billions of years of mergers and collisions.  But some appear large because of their incredibly powerful release of energy.  A new Galaxy discovered in the early universe by a team of astronomers from the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics is an incredible 4 million light years...

When Galaxies Collide

ryanLeave a comment
Honestly this could be the name of a new TV show, similar to ‘when buildings collapse,’ or ‘here’s what Kim Kardashian did today.’ I’ll take the colliding galaxies, simply because they can hold my attention longer.  Galaxy collisions are some of the most massive and long term events in the universe.  The result is the formation of billions of stars, the change in orbit of Billions more, and the complete restructuring of a galaxy.  Since we see a snapshot of the Universe whenever we look at a single galaxy, we tend to see collisions happening at all stages of the...