{"id":3925171,"date":"2026-03-30T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-rare-triple-double-radio-galaxy-discovered-using-meerkat\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:00:12","slug":"a-rare-triple-double-radio-galaxy-discovered-using-meerkat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-rare-triple-double-radio-galaxy-discovered-using-meerkat\/","title":{"rendered":"A rare &#8216;triple-double&#8217; radio galaxy discovered using MeerKAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Astronomers have discovered an exceptionally rare radio galaxy that has three distinct pairs of radio lobes. This system falls into a subpopulation of radio galaxies known as &#8220;triple-double&#8221; radio galaxies (TDRGs). Located nearly 7.5 billion light-years away, this unique system, cataloged as J022248\u2212060934, is only the seventh known example of its kind.  A paper outlining this discovery was published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society on February 25.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-03-rare-triple-radio-galaxy-meerkat.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have discovered an exceptionally rare radio galaxy that has three distinct pairs of radio lobes. This system falls into a subpopulation of radio galaxies known as &#8220;triple-double&#8221; radio galaxies (TDRGs). Located nearly 7.5 billion light-years away, this unique system, cataloged as J022248\u2212060934, is only the seventh known example of its kind. A paper outlining [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}