{"id":135698,"date":"2022-02-16T01:24:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T09:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/the-biggest-galaxy-ever-found-has-just-been-discovered-and-it-will-break-your-brain"},"modified":"2022-02-16T01:24:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T09:24:49","slug":"the-biggest-galaxy-ever-found-has-just-been-discovered-and-it-will-break-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/the-biggest-galaxy-ever-found-has-just-been-discovered-and-it-will-break-your-brain","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Galaxy Ever Found Has Just Been Discovered, And It Will Break Your Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-biggest-galaxy-ever-found-has-just-been-discovered-and-it-will-break-your-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have just found an absolute monster of a galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>Lurking some 3 billion light-years away, Alcyoneus is a giant radio galaxy reaching 5 megaparsecs into space. That\u2019s 16.3 million light-years long, and constitutes the largest known structure of galactic origin.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery highlights our poor understanding of these colossi, and what drives their incredible growth. But it could provide a pathway to better understanding, not just of giant radio galaxies, but the intergalactic medium that drifts in the yawning voids of space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have just found an absolute monster of a galaxy. Lurking some 3 billion light-years away, Alcyoneus is a giant radio galaxy reaching 5 megaparsecs into space. That\u2019s 16.3 million light-years long, and constitutes the largest known structure of galactic origin. The discovery highlights our poor understanding of these colossi, and what drives their incredible [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135698","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}