Sharmila is a Seattle-based science journalist. She found her love for astronomy in Carl Sagan's The Pale Blue Dot and has been hooked ever since. She holds an MA in Journalism from Northeastern University and has been a contributing writer for Astronomy Magazine since 2017. Follow her on Twitter at @Sharmilakg.
. While astronomers know that quasars and blazars exist, the latest finding is the first time they have observed a galaxy in the former group transform into the latter.The finding comes from a distant galaxy named PBC J2333.9-2343, whose core had blasted jets in the past but had long gone quiet. In the latest research, astronomers found that the core had once again stirred the jets back to life, one of which had"drastically" changed directions.
Given the sharp change in the jet's orientation, astronomers have redefined the giant radio galaxy into one with a"We started to study this galaxy as it showed peculiar properties," Lorena Hernández-García, an astronomer at the Millenium Institute of Astrophysics in Chile and the study's lead author, said in a.
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