Biggest black hole jets ever seen span 140 Milky Way galaxies
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. That is equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies back-to-back. Credit: E. Wernquist / D. Nelson (IllustrisTNG Collaboration) / M. Oei
The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
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The Milky Way's supermassive black hole is spinning incredibly fast and at the wrong angle. Scientists may finally know why.Observations from the Event Horizon Telescope may reveal a secret merger in our supermassive black hole's past, potentially ...
Astronomers have detected two massive jets of energy from a supermassive black hole, extending over 23 million light-years.
According to the researchers, Sagittarius A* is like a powerful engine that sucks matter now and then and spits it out at ...
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