{"id":25596,"date":"2024-08-04T01:57:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T20:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25596"},"modified":"2025-04-07T19:07:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:37:46","slug":"giant-radio-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/giant-radio-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Radio Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Giant Radio Source:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Giant Radio Sources are among the <strong>largest objects in the Universe.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These are powered by a super <strong>massive black hole<\/strong>, typically with a mass ranging from ten million to one billion times that of the Sun.\n<ul>\n<li>These super black holes release <strong>jets of hot plasma <\/strong>produce massive lobes of radio emissions, spanning much greater distances than the visible size of the galaxy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Astronomers believe that GRSs represent the <strong>final stage of radio galaxy evolution<\/strong> due to their enormous sizes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>They help in understanding the <strong>evolution of radio sources<\/strong> and studying the intergalactic medium that confines the lobes far from the parent galaxy.<\/li>\n<li>The study of giant radio galaxies helps scientists to comprehend the relationship existing between the black hole activity and evolution of radio galaxies.<\/li>\n<li>It also helps scientists understand more about the <strong>distribution and behaviour<\/strong> of <strong>matter in the cosmos.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT)?<\/h3>\n<p>GMRT is a low-frequency radio telescope that helps investigate various radio astrophysical problems ranging from nearby solar systems to the edge of the observable universe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/pune\/indian-astronomers-discover-giant-radio-sources-9489547\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian astronomers discover 34 new giant radio sources<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giant Radio Sources are powered by a super massive black hole, typically with a mass ranging from ten million to one billion times that of the Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}