The radio core is indeed at the location of the optical galaxy. One-sided cometary radio tails - here twisted like a corkscrew - form when the galaxy ploughs through the intracluster medium. The bubble-shaped old part of the tail is likely the result of a head-on collision with a shock front.

The Corkscrew Galaxy - it's full length is nearly 1 Mpc. #extragalactic #astronomy #radioastronomy

Snap :) See my recent paper with @sunmish.bsky.social @elenchically.bsky.social et al. on the Corkscrew Galaxy and A3627 cluster environment ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024MNRA...