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New Galaxy Discovery Raises Alarming Questions for Earth

3/29/2025

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An international team from Christ University in Bangalore has made an astonishing discovery—a spiral galaxy named 2MASX J23453268–0449256, located nearly a billion light-years away. This galaxy, with its powerful supermassive black hole shooting out massive jets, poses intriguing questions about cosmic evolution and raises alarming implications for the Milky Way's future and life on Earth.

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An international team from Christ University in Bangalore has made an astonishing discovery—a spiral galaxy named 2MASX J23453268–0449256, located nearly a billion light-years away. This galaxy, with its powerful supermassive black hole shooting out massive jets, poses intriguing questions about cosmic evolution and raises alarming implications for the Milky Way's future and life on Earth.