{"id":145148,"date":"2022-08-30T02:25:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T07:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/x-shaped-radio-galaxies-might-form-more-simply-than-expected"},"modified":"2022-08-30T02:25:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T07:25:01","slug":"x-shaped-radio-galaxies-might-form-more-simply-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/x-shaped-radio-galaxies-might-form-more-simply-than-expected","title":{"rendered":"X-shaped radio galaxies might form more simply than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IxF6qZ5D5Ag?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When astronomers use radio telescopes to gaze into the night sky, they typically see elliptical-shaped galaxies, with twin jets blasting from either side of their central supermassive black hole. But every once in a while\u2014less than 10% of the time\u2014astronomers might spot something special and rare: An X-shaped radio galaxy, with four jets extending far into space.<\/p>\n<p>Although these mysterious X-shaped radio galaxies have confounded astrophysicists for two decades, a new Northwestern University study sheds new insight into how they form\u2014and its surprisingly simple. The study also found that X-shaped radio galaxies might be more common than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>The study will be published on Aug. 29 in <i>The Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/i>. It marks the first large-scale galaxy accretion simulation that tracks the galactic gas far from the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/supermassive+black+hole\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">supermassive black hole<\/a> all the way toward it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When astronomers use radio telescopes to gaze into the night sky, they typically see elliptical-shaped galaxies, with twin jets blasting from either side of their central supermassive black hole. But every once in a while\u2014less than 10% of the time\u2014astronomers might spot something special and rare: An X-shaped radio galaxy, with four jets extending far [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145148","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=145148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}