O. Ivy Wong

The ASKAP telescope collects data on millions of radio sources in a single night. Automated algorithms confidently identify compact points but struggle with extended structures featuring jets, bridges, and bubbles.

For a long time, astrophysics was dominated by the belief that giant jets of radio emission, radio outbursts blasting from central regions, were the exclusive privilege of elliptical galaxies. It was thought that only their calm, featureless internal environment could allow such colossal fountains of energy, powered by supermassive black holes, to form.