Astronomers Discover Extremely Rare Jet-Emitting Spiral Galaxy

J1649+2635 is a spiral galaxy located about 800 million light-years away from our Solar System.

It is only the fourth spiral galaxy known to produce large, powerful jets of subatomic particles moving at nearly the speed of light.

The first galaxy of this type, 0313-192, was found in 1998 in the galaxy cluster Abell 428.

The second, Speca (J1409-030), was revealed in 2011 by images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Very Large Array.

And the third, J2345-0449, was found earlier this year near the massive galaxy cluster RBS 2042.

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CrazyNeutrino said:

Astronomers Discover Extremely Rare Jet-Emitting Spiral Galaxy

J1649+2635 is a spiral galaxy located about 800 million light-years away from our Solar System.

It is only the fourth spiral galaxy known to produce large, powerful jets of subatomic particles moving at nearly the speed of light.

The first galaxy of this type, 0313-192, was found in 1998 in the galaxy cluster Abell 428.

The second, Speca (J1409-030), was revealed in 2011 by images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Very Large Array.

And the third, J2345-0449, was found earlier this year near the massive galaxy cluster RBS 2042.

more…

That’s interesting. Elliptical galaxies tend to have both bigger galactic black holes and stronger jets than spiral (and barred spiral) galaxies.