{"id":5758,"date":"2013-12-17T22:23:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5758"},"modified":"2013-12-17T22:23:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:23:37","slug":"radio-galaxy-zoo-search-for-supermassive-black-holes-in-your-spare-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5758","title":{"rendered":"Radio Galaxy Zoo &#8211; search for supermassive black holes in your spare time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zooniverse.org\/2013\/12\/17\/new-project-radio-galaxy-zoo\/\" target=\"_d\">Zooniverse announces<\/a>\u00a0a new spinoff of the citizen science program\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.galaxyzoo.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Galaxy Zoo<\/a>\u00a0called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/radio.galaxyzoo.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Radio Galaxy Zoo<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earlier this year, Galaxy Zoo expanded to include the infrared. Now\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/radio.galaxyzoo.org\/\">Radio Galaxy Zoo<\/a>\u00a0involves looking at galaxies in yet another light. This time we are asking you to match huge jets \u2013 seen in radio emission \u2013 to the supermassive black holes at the centre of the galaxy that produced them. This requires looking at the galaxies in infrared and radio wavelengths. These galaxies are nothing like our own, and your classifications will allow scientists to understand the causes of these erupting black holes and how they affect the galaxy surrounding them.<\/p>\n<p>Get involved now at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/radio.galaxyzoo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/radio.galaxyzoo.org<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; and have fun discovering black holes in our Universe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.galaxyzoo.org\/2013\/12\/17\/welcome-to-radio-galaxy-zoo\/\" target=\"_d\">Welcome to Radio Galaxy Zoo! &#8211; Galaxy Zoo<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is a matching &amp; recognition problem that humans are still best at,<em>especially<\/em>\u00a0in cases where there are radio jets or multiple sources.\u00a0And it\u2019s an important task, one that will only become more important as the next generation of radio surveys and instruments come online and start producing enormous amounts of data. So if you\u2019re willing to help, please try out the new\u00a0<a title=\"Let's get classifying!\" href=\"http:\/\/radio.galaxyzoo.org\/\">Radio Galaxy Zoo<\/a>\u00a0and help find some growing black holes \u2014 and thank you!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Contours are radio and the image is a combination of radio (blue) and infrared (red).\" alt=\"Example image with radio jets and infrared galaxies\" src=\"http:\/\/galaxyzooblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/rgz_jet_contours.jpg?w=479\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Can you see the infrared galaxy between the radio jets?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zooniverse announces\u00a0a new spinoff of the citizen science program\u00a0Galaxy Zoo\u00a0called\u00a0Radio Galaxy Zoo\u00a0&#8211; Earlier this year, Galaxy Zoo expanded to include the infrared. Now\u00a0Radio Galaxy Zoo\u00a0involves looking at galaxies in yet another light. This time we are asking you to match huge jets \u2013 seen in radio emission \u2013 to the supermassive black holes at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5758\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Radio Galaxy Zoo &#8211; search for supermassive black holes in your spare time<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-space-participation","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1uS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10042,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10042","url_meta":{"origin":5758,"position":0},"title":"Galaxy Zoo citizen scientists match experts in ID of radio sources &#038; host galaxies","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A\u00a0paper reporting on research carried out with the help of\u00a0more than\u00a04900 participants in the citizen science project\u00a0Radio Galaxy Zoo, a member\u00a0of the\u00a0Zooniverse\u00a0array\u00a0of citizen science\u00a0projects, has been\u00a0submitted to\u00a0a scientific journal:\u00a0First Radio Galaxy Zoo paper has been submitted! -\u00a0Galaxy Zoo. 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