{"id":3200,"date":"2022-02-26T07:43:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T07:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/?p=3200"},"modified":"2022-02-26T07:44:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T07:44:54","slug":"an-unimaginably-biggalaxy-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/2022\/02\/26\/an-unimaginably-biggalaxy-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unimaginably Big Galaxy Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This newly found, real monster of a galaxy is named Alcyoneus. This huge, giant radio galaxy is about 3 billion light-years away and is huge, with a giant central supermassive black hole. It spreads 5 megaparsecs into space or an incredible 16.3 million light-years. It is the largest galaxy ever discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By comparison, the estimated diameter of the Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years: therefore, this galaxy is about 160 times larger. This is a giant &#8220;radio galaxy&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"An Unimaginably Big galaxy Discovered\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4kgmAd92SXA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Giant radio galaxies are one of the great mysteries in space. They consist of a host galaxy, a set of stars orbiting the galactic core in which there is a supermassive black hole, but also huge jets and flaps erupting from the galactic center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study titled \u201cthe discovery of a radio galaxy of at least 5 Mpc\u201d will soon be published in the journal Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics. The scientists believe that the Alcyoneus galaxy seems to be still growing and still getting bigger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This newly found, real monster of a galaxy is named Alcyoneus. This huge, giant radio galaxy is about 3 billion light-years away and is huge, with a giant central supermassive black hole. It spreads 5 megaparsecs into space or an incredible 16.3 million light-years. It is the largest galaxy ever discovered. By comparison, the estimated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[945,947,755,732,948,949,946,725],"class_list":["post-3200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alcyone","tag-alcyoneus","tag-astrophysics","tag-galaxy","tag-jet","tag-outerspace","tag-radio-galaxy","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3205,"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions\/3205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}