The cosmic tentacles of a distant galaxy are fully displayed in this stunning new image taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Photograph hubble It shows a deceptively serene “jellyfish galaxy” named JW39, located 900 million light-years from us. Soil In the constellation Hair of Veronica.

Galaxy JW39, known for its distinctive tentacle-like tails and containing a supermassive black hole like the Milky Way at its centre. PathIt is regularly disrupted by the gravity of many other galaxies that share its cosmic neighbor, space.com reports.

The space between galaxies in a cluster is not empty. Instead, it’s filled with superheated plasma, where galaxies move “like swimmers upstream,” NASA officials said in a description of the image released Friday, May 26.

Like many other galaxy clusters, JW39 and neighboring galaxies experience intergalactic gas as a counterwind that, when strong enough, overcomes the galaxies’ gravity and purges galaxies of gas and dust, forming tentacle-like structures.

JW39 is one of many galaxies in the Universe that experience this process known as JW39 in clusters. brake pressurereduces the amount of gas and dust in galaxies. Without cosmic components to give birth to new stars, galaxies eventually stop forming stars and turn into galaxies. galactic combustion.

This release is a mechanism that allows galaxies in clusters like JW39 to reach their star formation peak early and stop forming stars earlier than their isolated counterparts elsewhere in the Universe.