The Red Potato Galaxy and its Stifling Neighbour

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This image the red potato galaxy inside its cloud of gas, coloured red in this image.</p><p>The blue gas contains another galaxy, and the extended blue region is the x-ray jet from the galaxy's AGN. The red potato is quiescent, despite being surrounded by gas, and researchers think it's because of the jet from the neighbouring galaxy.</p><p>Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ.</p><p>Milano-Bicocca/W. Wang et al.; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Radio: ESO/NRAO/NAOJ/ALMA; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk & P. Edmondshttps://www.universetoday.com/article_images/redpotato_20260722_212641.jpg" width="1280" />

Galaxies attract cold gas from the intergalactic medium and turn it into stars.

But the JWST has found galaxies that aren't forming stars in the early Universe, long before they should've become quiescent.

In at least one instance involving the Red Potato Galaxy, an AGN jet from a neighbouring galaxy is the likely culprit.

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