There are many huge astronomical objects in the Universe, but among them are giant radio galaxies. They have extremely active supermassive black holes at their centers that shoot jets of plasma millions of light years long into space.. These jets release radio waves, allowing astronomers to detect these galaxies. According to a study published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers have discovered a new giant radio galaxy nicknamed Inkathazo, which means " This nickname was given to the galaxy for a reason, writes IFLScience.

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A new giant radio galaxy (GRG) has been discovered using the MeerKAT radio telescope. It is huge in size, because its jets cover a distance of 3.3 million light years from the end of one jet to the end of another. That's about 32 times the size of our Milky Way galaxy..

Scientists have given the nickname Inkathazo to this galaxy because it is quite difficult to understand the physics of what is happening in it.. That is, this is a problem for astronomers.

As the study showed, this GRG does not have the same characteristics that other giant radio galaxies have. Scientists were surprised that the jets of plasma released by a supermassive black hole do not have a straight shape, as is usually the case. One jet has a precise curved shape.

An unexpected discovery for scientists was that Inkathazo is not located in an isolated part of space, as is usually the case with such objects, but in the very center of a galaxy cluster. But such an arrangement should complicate the appearance of such gigantic plasma jets, and yet they exist.

The discovery of Inkathazo in a galaxy cluster raises questions about the role of environmental influences in the formation and evolution of giant radio galaxies, scientists say..

Astronomers were also able to find out the age of the plasma in the jets and it turned out that on one side the plasma is much younger than on the other. Scientists also discovered that some electrons in the plasma received unexpectedly high levels of energy.. It is assumed that this may be due to the interaction between the jets and hot intergalactic gas.

Scientists say the study's findings challenge existing models of the evolution of such galaxies and show that much of the complex plasma physics at work in these extreme galaxies will remain unknown for now..

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