{"id":105290,"date":"2020-04-13T15:44:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T22:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/for-the-first-time-astronomers-photograph-a-jet-spewing-out-from-colliding-galaxies"},"modified":"2020-04-13T15:44:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T22:44:46","slug":"for-the-first-time-astronomers-photograph-a-jet-spewing-out-from-colliding-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/for-the-first-time-astronomers-photograph-a-jet-spewing-out-from-colliding-galaxies","title":{"rendered":"For The First Time, Astronomers Photograph a Jet Spewing Out From Colliding Galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-first-time-astronomers-photograph-a-jet-spewing-out-from-colliding-galaxies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Space can be a horror show of cosmic violence, and now astronomers have captured the first photographic evidence of the carnage that can be unleashed when two heavyweight galaxies collide.<\/p>\n<p>A collaboration between an international team of researchers has produced the first ever image of a relativistic jet of gas and plasma spewing forth from a pair of galaxies as they dive head-first into one another.<\/p>\n<p>While galaxies have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/an-incredible-weird-galaxy-has-turned-out-to-be-three-galaxies-merging\">caught mid-collision<\/a> plenty of times before, this is the first time a jet of this kind has been seen spilling out of such a merger, and it could tell us a thing or two about how they arise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space can be a horror show of cosmic violence, and now astronomers have captured the first photographic evidence of the carnage that can be unleashed when two heavyweight galaxies collide. A collaboration between an international team of researchers has produced the first ever image of a relativistic jet of gas and plasma spewing forth from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}