This is an optical image with radio lobes (in yellow-red). The supermassive black hole in the red galaxy at the centre (zoomed in inset) has led to the formation of the giant radio lobes. Credit: Prathamesh Tamhane/Yogesh Wadadekar
Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare radio galaxy – a giant, with an extent of 4 million light years caught in its dying phase at an incredible distance of 9 billion light years. This discovery, made by combining observations of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, with other telescopes in space and on the ground, enables us to study properties of the magnetic field in the region between galaxies in the distant universe.
How do galaxies with an optical size of a hundred thousand light years produce radio emission several million light years in extent? I...
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