Researchers gathered light from Peanut butter & celery in every part of the spectrum they could. Some of us fall in love with space rocks and some of us (Gru) accidentally adopt three kids while we’re trying to take over the world. Pluto was unique in this regard because so many people had become emotionally attached to the small, icy planetoid, to a degree that probably surprised even them. When new information arises, we adjust our models and edge ever nearer to the truth. Objects in space get renamed, redescribed, re-explained, and reclassified all the time. We saw something like this with the reclassification of Pluto. The recent observations, however, revealed a different sort of galaxy entirely, forcing a reclassification to GIANT radio galaxy. Previously, the distant galaxy had been classified as a radio galaxy, thanks to regions of radio emissions extending well beyond the visible structure of the galaxy. An international team of astronomers was investigating the galaxy PBC J2333.9-2343 (it’s not a glamorous name, we’re going to call it Peanut butter & celery), located roughly 650 million light years away, when they realized it had experienced a growth spurt since the last time they had seen it. That’s seemingly what happened, according to a recent paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. RELATED: The face of Pluto is slowly changing and now we know why One species becomes two, a planet becomes a dwarf planet, and a radio galaxy… gets larger and becomes something else? Sometimes, that means we change our definitions or classifications of things. We learn more information and we discard or amend old ideas to fit the evidence. Fortunately, we’re not in any danger, but it did force a shakeup in the classification of the black hole and the galaxy around it.Īstronomy, like all sciences, is additive in nature. Astronomers recently observed a black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy which turned its gaze (a charged beam of particles) directly toward us. Now, there’s a death ray pointing at our planet, sort of, that Gru and Vector didn’t have anything to do with it, nor any supervillain for that matter. In Despicable Me (now streaming on Peacock!), Gru (Steve Carrell) gets into a contest of oneupmanship with his nemesis, Vector (Jason Segal), which escalates to the point of shrinking and stealing the Moon.
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