[6] Observations with the Gran Telescopio Canarias showed that the Teacup Galaxy has a giant reservoir of ionized gas extending up to 111 kpc.

[10] Observations in x-rays with Swift, XMM-Newton and Chandra revealed a powerful, highly obscured active galactic nucleus.

[11][1] One bubble was discovered by Galaxy Zoo volunteers in SDSS images as a 5 kpc loop of ionized gas.

The study also found a bright emission towards the north-east of the AGN, which is consistent with high-velocity ionized gas (-740 km/s).

The Chandra data also show evidence for hotter gas within the bubble, which may imply that a wind of material is blowing away from the black hole.