Search for huge radio galaxy from Mirkat telescope in South Africa

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Last Updated:February 01, 2025, 14:12 IST

Scientists have discovered another world from a telescope in South Africa. It is 32 times larger than the earth. This galaxy is 33 lakh light years away from the earth. Scientists believe that it comes a little closer to the earth…Read more

Will the earth be destroyed?

Cape Town. We do not even know, but at all times, huge cosmic events are happening far away from our solar system. Black hole is also included in this. Scientists are also looking for another world in these events every moment. Recently a group of scientists has discovered a new world from a telescope in South Africa. He has told that there is a highly black black hole in the center of the galaxies.

Scientists said that the mass of these mysterious bodies can be millions or crores of times more than the sun. They are so dense that they destroy other space related activities around them. Scientists believe that if it comes closer to the earth, then the whole earth will swallow because the huge black hole is moving around it with large quantity of internet gas.

In a recent episode of astronomy podcast ‘The Cosmic Savana’, I compared his form with two shining rods (plasma jets) coming out of a ball of the sticky substance (galaxy). Astronomers estimate that with the passage of time, plasma jets keep spreading outwards, and eventually become so large that they become huge radio galaxies.

There is information about millions of radio galaxies in space. But by 2020, only 800 huge radio galaxies were discovered. She has come into existence for the first time after 50 years of discovering them. He was considered rare. However, a new generation of radio telescopes, including ‘Mirkat’ of South Africa, has completely changed the idea. About 11,000 giant constellations have been discovered in the last five years.

The discovery of the new giant radio galaxy of South African Radio Telescope Mirkat is extraordinary. The plasma jets of this cosmic giant galaxy have spread from one end to the other for 33 lakh light years. This is 32 times more than the size of our galaxy ‘Milky Way’.

This discovery has given us a unique opportunity to study huge radio galaxies. These findings challenge existing models and suggest that we have not yet understood the complex plasma physics running in these extreme galaxies. Mirkat telescope is located in the Karu region of South Africa. It is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and management by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory.

This square is the erstwhile of the kilometer array, which will start scientific operations around 2028, it will be the world’s largest telescope. Mirkat has been playing an important role in highlighting some hidden treasures of the southern sky since first started work in 2018.