{"id":4805,"date":"2020-04-14T13:46:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T12:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=4805"},"modified":"2020-04-14T13:46:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T12:46:29","slug":"scientists-find-proof-that-galaxy-merger-creates-jets-of-charged-particles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/scientists-find-proof-that-galaxy-merger-creates-jets-of-charged-particles\/4805\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find proof that galaxy merger creates jets of charged particles"},"content":{"rendered":"
Previously, scientists discovered that these jets could be found in elliptical-shaped galaxies, formed in the merger between two spiral galaxies. Scientists from Clemson University, USA, have since gained photographic evidence of the formation of a jet from two young spiral-shaped galaxies.<\/p>\n
Vaidehi Paliya, a former Clemson post-doctoral researcher and lead author of the findings, said: “For the first time, we have found two spiral- or disk-shaped galaxies on path for a collision that have produced a nascent, baby jet that has just started its life at the centre of one of the galaxies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Associate professor, Marco Ajello, said that astrophysicists have previously captured images of galactic collisions, however, Ajello and his colleagues were the first to capture two galaxies merging producing fully formed jets of charged particles.<\/p>\n
Jets of charged particles are believed to be the most powerful astrophysical phenomena in the universe, emitting more energy into the universe in one second than our Sun will produce in its lifetime.<\/p>\n