Chandra Helps Astronomers Discover a Lonely Galaxy:🔸️3C 297

- A surprisingly lonely galaxy about 9.2 billion light-years from Earth in Virgo.

- Its surroundings have many features of a galaxy cluster, implying the galaxy has likely pulled in and absorbed its former companion galaxies.

- Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the International Gemini Observatory were used for this discovery.

- This result may push the limits for how quickly galaxies are expected to grow in the early Universe

📸 3C 297, Labeled. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Torino/V. Missaglia et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI & International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Infrared: NASA/ESA/STScI; Radio: NRAO/AUI/NSF

Released on 8 March 2023.