Odd Radio Circles (ORCs) were discovered by accident in 2019. They are circular regions of faint, edge-brightened radio emissions that are invisible at optical, infrared, ultraviolet and X-ray wavelengths. Some have a galaxy at the centre while others don’t, but they’re all characterised by their large size, many times bigger than a typical galaxy.
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