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    Astronomers announce discovery of the most distant and most powerful 'odd radio circle' (ORC) known so far at redshift of ~0.94. It is also only the 2nd ORC discovered with two intersecting rings instead of one
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    Astronomers announce discovery of the most distant and most powerful ‘odd radio circle’ (ORC) known so far at redshift of ~0.94. It is also only the 2nd ORC discovered with two intersecting rings instead of one


    Astronomers announce discovery of the most distant and most powerful ‘odd radio circle’ (ORC) known so far at redshift of ~0.94. It is also only the 2nd ORC discovered with two intersecting rings instead of one

    https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/most-powerful-odd-radio-circle-date-discovered

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    1. Blue_Sail on

      >ORCs are enormous, faint, ring-shaped structures of radio emission surrounding galaxies which are visible only in the radio band of the electromagnetic spectrum and consist of relativistic, magnetised plasma. Previous research has suggested they might be caused by shockwaves from merging supermassive black holes or galaxies.

      Is it like a wave you’d see when you throw a rock in water? Amazing that it still has so much energy after so much time. Is there really nothing that sustains it?

    2. mtnviewguy on

      Is there a space ‘acronym’ handbook out there? Is it called the SAHB-25? It has to be updated every year! 👍ðŸĪŠðŸ––