A strange bow-and-arrow-shaped galaxy, discovered falling at supersonic speed, defies known models (opens in new tab)

An international team of astronomers has identified a galactic system of exceptional morphology that presents an elongated structure in a bow-and-arrow shape extending over approximately 1.8 million light-years, a configuration that researchers describe as “remarkable” and which has no parallel in previous observations of conventional radio galaxies. The finding, published in Monthly Notices of the […]