It has a companion galaxy, shown appearing as a secondary nucleus, indicating it is merging.

When imaged in radio waves, however, plasma jets over one million light years long appear.

1015 solar masses) than our Milky Way Galaxy, and the central black hole is nearly 1,000 times more massive (approx.

The physics that creates the jets is poorly understood, with a likely energy source being matter ejected perpendicular to the accretion disc of the central black hole[8] which has grown more times than 1.7×108 Msolar, enough to produce a shock front in the cluster's interstellar medium.

Despite not being a Fanaroff-Riley Class II neither an FR I source, it instead shows similarities to both types.