Researchers have discovered the largest black hole plasma jets ever in a galaxy almost 7 billion light years away from Earth.

A newly discovered, distant duo of black hole jets is the largest of its kind ever seen. Formed when the universe was less than half its current age, the pair collectively spewed the energy equivalent ...

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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.

Astronomers have spotted an absolutely colossal cosmic chimney that stretches as far as 140 Milky Ways lined up side by side. These jumbo jets are being blasted from a supermassive black hole. This ...

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.

WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Two mighty beams of energy have been detected shooting in opposite directions from a supermassive black hole inside a distant galaxy - the largest such jets ever ...

A pair of jets blasting out of a black hole spans 23 million light years, the equivalent of 220 Milky Way galaxies in length. This is so large that it may change our understanding both of black holes ...

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.

DESY/Science Communication Lab/Oei et al. Imagine an amoeba blasting out jets of energy that stretched the width of the Earth. That’s what’s happening about 7.5 billion light years away on a much ...

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Space is vast and filled with giants: asteroids that can put planets on new evolutionary trajectories, roiling stars, and enormous galaxies. Now, a team of researchers has found some of the hugest ...