{"id":144971,"date":"2022-08-27T16:24:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/the-oldest-fossil-radio-galaxy-discovered-yet-has-been-found-hiding-in-a-cluster"},"modified":"2022-08-27T16:24:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T21:24:10","slug":"the-oldest-fossil-radio-galaxy-discovered-yet-has-been-found-hiding-in-a-cluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/the-oldest-fossil-radio-galaxy-discovered-yet-has-been-found-hiding-in-a-cluster","title":{"rendered":"The Oldest Fossil Radio Galaxy Discovered Yet Has Been Found Hiding in a Cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-oldest-fossil-radio-galaxy-discovered-yet-has-been-found-hiding-in-a-cluster3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The oldest radio galaxy yet discovered is hidden in a cluster.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers claim to have found the oldest fossil radio galaxy yet discovered, hiding in a cluster. The brightest galaxy in the cluster erupted as a result of supermassive black hole activity, blowing massive bubbles of radio light into space, according to a report published by ScienceAlert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese newly discovered bubbles \u2014 known as radio lobes, or a radio galaxy \u2014 are the oldest of their kind we\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d claimed the astronomers\u2019 team led by Surajit Paul and Savitribai Phule from Pune University in India.<\/p>\n<p>A second team of astronomers led by Gopal Krishna of the University of Mumbai also discovered a pair of younger lobes that are linked to the same parent galaxy.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If we had been around and able to see into the heart of galaxy cluster Abell 980 around 260 million years ago, we may have seen something very spectacular indeed.<\/p>\n<p>The brightest galaxy in the cluster erupted, the result of activity from its supermassive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">black hole<\/a>, an event that would go on to blow massive bubbles emitting radio light out into space.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/the-oldest-fossil-radio-galaxy-discovered-yet-has-been-found-hiding-in-a-cluster\">Continue reading \u201cThe Oldest Fossil Radio Galaxy Discovered Yet Has Been Found Hiding in a Cluster\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest radio galaxy yet discovered is hidden in a cluster. Astronomers claim to have found the oldest fossil radio galaxy yet discovered, hiding in a cluster. The brightest galaxy in the cluster erupted as a result of supermassive black hole activity, blowing massive bubbles of radio light into space, according to a report published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144971","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}