Abstract

We report the discovery of an S-shaped morphology of the radio galaxy J0644+1043 imaged with a 30 μJy beam−1 sensitive 525 MHz broadband (bands 3 + 4) uGMRT map. Dedicated spectroscopic observations of the host galaxy carried out with the 2 m Rozhen telescope yielded a redshift of 0.0488, giving a projected linear size of the peculiar radio structure of over 0.7 Mpc. This giant radio galaxy is powered by a black hole of mass 4.1−2.87+9.39×108 M ⊙, from the vicinity of which emanate well-collimated and knotty jets, each ∼100 kpc long. The entire radio structure, presumably due to the effective jet precession, is less than 50 Myr old, has a power of ∼6 × 1024 W Hz−1 at 1.4 GHz, and has observed morphological characteristics that do not strictly conform to the traditional Fanaroff–Riley (FR) FR I or FR II categories.

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