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Opposing fountains of plasma and particles spanning 23 million light-years are the longest pair of black hole jets ever seen. That’s far enough to influence the evolution of the universe on cosmic ...

Astronomers have detected two massive jets of energy from a supermassive black hole, extending over 23 million light-years. Named Porphyrion, these jets are 30% larger than any previously known. Using ...

Astronomers have made an astonishing discovery with a pair of black hole jets stretching 23 million light-years across the cosmos. These colossal jets, nicknamed Porphyrion, are the largest ever ...

Astronomers have discovered a black hole emitting energy in jets longer than the width of 140 Milky Way galaxies. An artist’s concept of Porphyrion, a jet of material 23 million light-years long that ...

The largest known black hole jets, 23 million light years across, have been discovered in the distant universe. This pair of particle beams launched by a supermassive black hole is over a hundred ...

"The Milky Way would be a little dot in these two giant eruptions." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have spotted the ...

An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek giant, these jets span roughly 7 megaparsecs, or 23 million light-years.