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Giant Radio Galaxy and it’s Titanic Emission

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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...

Brightest Galaxy in the Universe Discovered

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Of the approximately 100 Million galaxies in the visible universe, we see incredible variation.  We always try to classify them based on their shape, size, and peak radiation, but even then we still find others that stray from the usual patterns.  In recent years, a new class of galaxies named Extremely Luminous Infrared Galaxies (ELIRGs) has been found with data from the Wide Field Infrared Survey (WISE).  Now the king of the ELIRGs has been found, the most luminous galaxy in the universe. The galaxy, designated WISE J224607.57-052635.0, has a luminosity equal to 300 Trillion suns, and may owe its brightness...