First-ever photo proof of powerful jet emerging from colliding galaxies
Published Date: 4/7/2020
Source: phys.org
A team of Clemson University College of Science researchers, in collaboration with international colleagues, has reported the first definitive detection of a relativistic jet emerging from two colliding galaxies—in essence, the first photographic proof that merging galaxies can produce jets of charged particles that travel at nearly the speed of light.