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Originally Posted by naskies
The jet at 1 o'clock seems to shoot out and then suddenly turn towards 5 o'clock near the top-right corner of the image. Any ideas what's going on there?
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That jet is called R1 and this structure is called the "dogleg." I found a paper about NCG 1097 where they did N-body simulations of a minor merger and managed to show similar structures forming. The fine details of the paper are incomprehensible to mere mortals, of course
