Two giant radio galaxies have been discovered with South Africa’s powerful MeerKAT telescope. These galaxies are thought to be amongst the largest single objects in the Universe. The discovery has been published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . Source: https://phys.org/news/2021-01-cosmic-beasts.html…
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South Africa’s MeerKAT solves mystery of ‘X-galaxies’
Many galaxies far more active than the Milky Way have enormous twin jets of radio waves extending far into intergalactic space. Normally these go in opposite directions, coming from a massive black hole at the centre of the galaxy. However, a few are more complicated and appear to have four jets forming an ‘X’ on the sky. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-05-south-africa-meerkat-mystery-x-galaxies.html…
Caught in the act: MeerKAT telescope spies stellar flare
Scientists using the MeerKAT radio telescope have discovered a unique and previously-unseen flare of radio emission from a binary star in our galaxy. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-11-caught-meerkat-telescope-spies-stellar.html…