Astronomers have studied a galaxy with an active nucleus and an unusual emission spectrum

Observations of RXJ0134.2-4258 have shown that this galaxy has unusual properties compared to others

typical Seyfert galaxies.

A group of astronomers led by Chichuan Jin fromThe University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China, examined this source in X-rays using XMM-Newton and NuSTAR, hoping to shed more light on the nature of this source.

Two space telescopes observed RXJ0134.2-4258. During the study, scientists noticed her changing X-ray emission.

RXJ0134.2-4258 is a Seyfert galaxy.Recall that galaxies of this type are distinguished by an active core, and their emission spectrum contains many bright broad bands, which indicates powerful gas emissions at speeds up to several thousand kilometers per second. Another feature of RXJ0134.2-4258 is that the bands in its spectrum are much narrower than those of standard galaxies of this type. The mass of the black hole in this system is estimated at about 15 million solar masses.

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