{"id":132518,"date":"2022-02-25T14:06:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T14:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=132518"},"modified":"2022-02-25T14:06:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T14:06:57","slug":"astronomers-discovered-a-new-giant-radio-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/astronomers-discovered-a-new-giant-radio-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Discovered a New giant Radio Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which of the following is the name of a new giant radio galaxy(GRG), discovered by the team of Astronomers, according to a report published in February 2022?<br><\/strong>a) Alcyoneus<br>b) Demeter<br>c) Poseidon<br>d) None of these<br><strong>Answer: (a)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>As par the research paper published on 11 February 2022; a team of galaxy Astronomers discovered a new giant radio galaxy named as Alcyoneus.<\/li><li>Actually European astronomers reported the detection of a new giant radio galaxy (GRG) as part of the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) Two-meter Sky Survey (LoTSS).<\/li><li>The newly discovered Alcyoneus, turns out to be the largest GRG known to date. The finding is detailed in a on the arXiv pre-print repository.<\/li><li>GRG are radio galaxies with an overall projected linear length exceeding at least 2.3 million light years.<\/li><li>They are rare objects grown in low-density environments. In general, GRGs are important for astronomers to study the formation and the evolution of radio sources.<\/li><li>So far, about a thousand GRGs have been detected; out of which only ten exceed 10 million light years in size.<\/li><li>The largest one is J1420-0545\u2014with a projected proper length of approximately 16 million light years.<\/li><li>GRGs and also the rest of the megaparsec-scale radio galaxies are assumed to be the largest single-galaxy\u2013induced phenomena in the universe.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8211; Rajesh Tripathi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-02-giant-radio-galaxy.html#:~:text=The%20newly%20found%20object%2C%20named,least%202.3%20million%20light%20years.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-02-giant-radio-galaxy.html#:~:text=The%20newly%20found%20object%2C%20named,least%202.3%20million%20light%20years.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which of the following is the name of a new giant radio galaxy(GRG), discovered by the team of Astronomers, according to a report published in February 2022?a) Alcyoneusb) Demeterc) Poseidond) None of theseAnswer: (a)Related Facts:- As par the research paper published on 11 February 2022; a team of galaxy Astronomers discovered a new giant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":132519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-132518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snes","tag-scientific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132520,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132518\/revisions\/132520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}