Newly discovered giant galaxies dwarf the Milky Way

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Astronomers have discovered two giant radio galaxies, which are some of the largest-known objects in the universe. This revelation suggests that the enormous galaxies may be more common than previously believed.

The study published Monday in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Astronomers found the two galaxies in new radio maps that were created using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa. Radio galaxies, which can be quite common, are brightest in radio wavelengths of light. Centaurus A is a well-known radio galaxy to astronomers. It's the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky and is about 12 million light-years from Earth.

Oldest quasar and supermassive black hole discovered in the distant universe"They are more than 2 Mega-parsecs across, which is around 6.5 million light years or about 62 times the size of the Milky Way. Yet they are fainter than others of the same size. We suspect that many more galaxies like these should exist, because of the way we think galaxies grow and change over their lifetimes."Astronomers still don't quite understand why only some radio galaxies grow to this massive size.

 

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And the search for life existence beyond our galaxy continues with questions as to whether the human race on our earth is the most sophisticated, complex or dynamic? Or do we have smarter and more advanced creatures elsewhere in the universe?

Wow.

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Let's hope they find intelligent life up there; because there's sure as hell no sign of it down here.

Seems like the description of the Square Kilometre Array and the end of the article was plagiarized from SKA website (the article has a link).

Radio galaxy? Try 22 times bigger than our milky way...

I like Mars bars instead .

Wait til you guys discover video galaxies.

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