Maar in het geval van 3C 321... knalt de straal op een melkwegstelsel. Hierdoor buigt de straal af... en dat veroorzaakt allerlei problemen. ###>Normally it would propagate up to about a million light-years away, but in the special case of 3C321, that jet is slamming into the side of a companion galaxy, and in doing so, it's becoming disrupted and distorted and bent away.