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Astronomers just detected the biggest black hole jets ever seen—and named them Porphyrion
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 times larger than our galaxy,
Largest Black Hole Jets Ever Seen Create a Galactic Structure That Will Blow Your Mind
"If we shrink the jets to the size of the Earth and the black hole accordingly, the black hole would have the size of 0.2 millimeters: the size of an amoeba or a mite on your skin. So these giant jets are incredible: they are as if a single amoeba was able to generate a powerful fountain of energy the size of the entire Earth!"
Scientists detect longest pair of jets streaming from a supermassive black hole
Scientists have discovered the longest pair of jets streaming from a black hole in a distant galaxy. Black holes eat most space debris that falls their way.
Keck Observatory on Maunakea measured distance between Earth, biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen
Astronomers on Maunakea on Hawai‘i Island have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen, spanning 23 million light-years in total length – equivalent to 140 Milky Way galaxies lined up back-to-back.
Supermassive Black Hole Spotted Starving Galaxy to Death
A Milky Way-sized galaxy from the early universe appears to have stopped producing any new stars because a supermassive black hole at its center is blasting out all the material needed for stars to be forged,
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
Newly discovered black hole jets span more than 140 Milky Way galaxies long
Astronomers have discovered twin black hole jets that span a distance greater than 140 Milky Way galaxies long, the biggest jets found yet.
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5 astonishing images of supermassive black holes captured by NASA Hubble Space Telescope
In the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A, which is 4 million times ...
Faraway black hole unleashes record-setting energetic jets
Two mighty beams of energy have been detected shooting in opposite directions from a supermassive black hole inside a distant ...
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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 ...
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Black hole is starving its host galaxy of star-forming fuel
Astronomers have detected a supermassive black hole starving its galaxy of gas, halting star formation in the early universe.
Hubble and Chandra find supermassive black hole duo
Like two Sumo wrestlers squaring off, the closest confirmed pair of supermassive black holes have been observed in tight ...
A supermassive black hole shoots two energy beams 140 times the diameter of the Milky Way
Astronomers have detected two massive jets of energy from a supermassive black hole, extending over 23 million light-years.