{"id":241346,"date":"2026-07-22T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/black-hole-jet-may-be-stirring-gas-cloud-containing-early-red-potato-galaxy"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:58:08","slug":"black-hole-jet-may-be-stirring-gas-cloud-containing-early-red-potato-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/black-hole-jet-may-be-stirring-gas-cloud-containing-early-red-potato-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Black hole jet may be stirring gas cloud containing early \u2018red potato\u2019 galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/black-hole-jet-may-be-stirring-gas-cloud-containing-early-red-potato-galaxy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A black hole may be stirring a \u201cpot\u201d of gas containing a neighboring galaxy in the early universe, according to a new study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aanda.org\/10.1051\/0004-6361\/202659351\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics<\/i> that used observations from NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The galaxy slowly being \u201ccooked\u201d is named MQN01 J004131.9\u2013493704, but astronomers have nicknamed it the \u201cred potato\u201d because of its appearance in images from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope.<\/p>\n<p>The red potato galaxy is located about 11.7 billion light-years from Earth at an intersection where gigantic web-like structures of galaxies and gas meet. Astronomers targeted this area with Webb because they knew it contained one of the heaviest concentrations of galaxies and growing supermassive black holes yet identified in the early universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A black hole may be stirring a \u201cpot\u201d of gas containing a neighboring galaxy in the early universe, according to a new study published in Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics that used observations from NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The galaxy slowly being \u201ccooked\u201d is named MQN01 J004131.9\u2013493704, but astronomers have nicknamed it the \u201cred potato\u201d because of [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241346","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=241346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}