Speca -- An intriguing look into the beginning of a black hole jet
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 07:34
in Astronomy & Space
Its catalog number is NGC 3801, but its name is SPECA a Spiral-host Episodic radio galaxy tracing Cluster Accretion. Thats certainly a mouthful of words for this unusual galaxy, but theres a lot more going on here than just its name. This is probably the most exotic galaxy with a black hole, ever seen. It has the potential to teach us new lessons about how galaxies and clusters of galaxies formed in the early Universe, said Ananda Hota, of the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA), in Taiwan and who discovered this exotic galaxy. We find this merger-remnant early-type galaxy to have an intriguing spiral-wisp of young star forming regions.