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Hubble captures mysterious object that casts doubt on its classification

Illustration of object Z 229-15 discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope. | Fountain: Europe Press 2023 | Photographer: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. BART, R. MUSHOTSKI

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space telescope Hubble belonging NASA/ESA photographed a celestial object 390 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra, which defies their classification.

Under investigation Z 229-15sometimes depicted as an active galactic nucleus ( AGN); sometimes like quasar; and sometimes how galaxy Seifert.

What is it really Z 229-15? The answer is that it’s all at once, because these three definitions have significant overlap, reports POT.

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A AGN it is a small region at the center of some galaxies (called active galaxies) that is much brighter than the stars in the galaxy. The extra luminosity is due to the presence of a supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s core. Material drawn into a black hole does not actually fall directly into it, but is instead pulled into a spinning disk, from where it is inexorably pulled into the black hole. This disk of matter becomes so hot that it releases a huge amount of energy in the electromagnetic spectrum, which is why AGNs appear so bright.

quasars are a special type AGN; they tend to be very bright and far from Earth: several hundred million light-years are considered close to a quasar, making Z 229-15 positively local.

Often AGN so bright that you can’t see the rest of the galaxy, but the galaxy Seifert active galaxies that contain AGN (quasars) are very bright, while the rest of the galaxy can still be observed. So, Z 229-15 it’s a galaxy Seifert containing quasar and which, by definition, contains AGN. (Europe Press)

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