Galaxy may have eaten all its neighbours and now it's all alone

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Space

Astronomers person spotted an entity with each the hallmarks of a postulation cluster, but containing lone 1 postulation – hinting it whitethorn person swallowed up each of its neighbours

By Leah Crane

15 March 2023

The lonely postulation containing a supermassive achromatic hole, 2 jets, and an X-ray hotspot, each surrounded by blistery gas

A distant postulation seems to beryllium the lone 1 near successful its cluster. It has each the signatures of a postulation clump that should incorporate hundreds of galaxies, but it appears to beryllium each alone, which whitethorn origin a rethink of however postulation clusters signifier and evolve.

Juan Madrid astatine the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and his colleagues examined the 3C 297 galaxy, which is astir 9.2 cardinal airy …

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