{"id":151725,"date":"2022-12-02T23:26:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T05:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/astronomers-spot-the-biggest-galaxy-ever-and-the-scale-will-break-your-brain"},"modified":"2022-12-02T23:26:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T05:26:10","slug":"astronomers-spot-the-biggest-galaxy-ever-and-the-scale-will-break-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/astronomers-spot-the-biggest-galaxy-ever-and-the-scale-will-break-your-brain","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Spot The Biggest Galaxy Ever, And The Scale Will Break Your Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-spot-the-biggest-galaxy-ever-and-the-scale-will-break-your-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, astronomers 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 <em>million<\/em> light-years long, and it 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, astronomers 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 it constitutes the largest known structure of galactic origin. The discovery highlights our poor understanding of these colossi, and what drives [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151725","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}