Astronomers Spotted a "Blazar Galaxy" and it...

They detected some high-energy gamma rays..

These particular rays were detected from 7.6 billion light years away. And the detection is significant in that it will help astronomers better understand these unique types of galaxies and the black holes at the centers of them. They actually combined more than one telescope in this particular study:

Using NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope, the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) in Arizona, and other telescopes, astronomers have detected high-energy gamma-ray emission from an extremely distant galaxy.

The gamma rays came from PKS 1441+25, a type of galaxy called a blazar, according to two studies published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The cool thing about the classification of “blazar” is that matter is known to accelerate out of a black hole at close to the speed of light.

Let’s find out more about this bizarre and cool formation on page 2