[2] The photography was carried out using an advanced camera for surveys by a team led by George K. Miley of the Netherlands' Leiden Observatory.

Radio-astronomical observations seem to indicate that this is a typical, massive elliptical galaxy, of the type that, with time, transforms into the center of a galactic cluster.

However, observations in the band of ultraviolet light indicate that the galaxy possesses an irregular nucleus and a series of "knots" strongly emitting radiation in its interior.

Give that observations are from 2,000 million years after the Big Bang, this study is an important part of understanding galaxy formation and evolution.

The result was the Mills Cross radio telescope, installed in Fleurs (now Badgerys Creek), which began operating in 1964.