{"id":203878,"date":"2025-01-16T10:10:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T16:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/hubble-reveals-surprising-spiral-shape-of-galaxy-hosting-young-jet"},"modified":"2025-01-16T10:10:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T16:10:58","slug":"hubble-reveals-surprising-spiral-shape-of-galaxy-hosting-young-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/hubble-reveals-surprising-spiral-shape-of-galaxy-hosting-young-jet","title":{"rendered":"Hubble reveals surprising spiral shape of galaxy hosting young jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-reveals-surprising-spiral-shape-of-galaxy-hosting-young-jet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with supermassive black holes, surrounded by brilliantly hot disks of swirling gas that can blast off jets of material.<\/p>\n<p>Following up on the groundbreaking <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-4357\/abc341\" target=\"_blank\">2020 discovery<\/a> of newborn jets in a number of quasars, aspiring naval officer Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy has used NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope to reveal surprising properties of one of them, quasar J0742+2704.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest surprise was seeing the distinct spiral shape in the Hubble Space Telescope images. At first I was worried I had made an error,\u201d said Achenbach, who made the discovery during the course of a four-week internship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with supermassive black holes, surrounded by brilliantly hot disks of swirling gas that can blast off jets of material. Following up on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203878","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=203878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}