The report came from the Royal Astronomical Society on Tuesday (21 March) where spokesperson, Dr. Lorena Hernández-García said: “We started to study this galaxy as it showed peculiar properties.
“Our hypothesis was that the relativistic jet of its supermassive black hole had changed its direction, and to confirm that idea we had to carry out a lot of observations.”
“The fact that we see the nucleus is not feeding the lobes anymore means that they are very old. They are the relics of past activity, whereas the structures located closer to the nucleus represent younger and active jets.”
As of yet, scientists are unsure what has caused the change in direction, though it is possible that galaxy PBC J2333.9-2343 had collided with another galaxy and this is the cause of the 90 degree shift.
Currently, it is unclear how this shift could affect our own galaxy.
Researchers at the Royal Astronomical Society have since added that the galaxy stretches almost 4 million light-years wide, making the black hole a whopping 40 times the size of the Milky Way.
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