Astronomers Discover Record-Breaking Jets Escaping a Black Hole, …
WEB13 hours ago · Combing through the LOFAR images required a combination of a discerning eye, machine learning tools and help from citizen scientists. To date, LOFAR has detected more than 10,000 black hole megajets .
Gargantuan Black Hole Jets Are Biggest Seen Yet
WEB2 days ago · This picture, taken by Europe's LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio telescope, shows the longest known pair of black hole jets. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a Greek giant by co-discoverer Aivin Gast of the University of Oxford, the jet system spans 23 million light-years, the equivalent of 140 Milky Way galaxies lined up back to back.
Astronomers just detected the biggest black hole jets ever …
WEB20 hours ago · Credit: LOFAR Collaboration / Martijn Oei (Caltech) The largest known black hole jets, 23 million light years across, have been discovered in the distant universe.
Black hole blasts largest jet ever seen at 23 million ... - Yahoo News
WEB1 day ago · Astronomers have spotted the largest twin jets ever seen erupting from a black hole. The jets stretch for around 23 million light-years, well beyond the limits of their host galaxy and stretching as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined up from end to end. The jets are erupting from a supermassive black hole at the heart of a galaxy located ...
Newly discovered black hole jets span more than 140 Milky Way …
WEB1 day ago · This picture, taken by Europe's LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio telescope, shows the longest known pair of black hole jets. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a Greek giant by co-discoverer Aivin Gast of the University of Oxford, the jet system spans 23 million light-years, the equivalent of 140 Milky Way galaxies lined up back to back.
Image from the LOFAR radio telescope - dlr.de
WEBThis image, taken by the European LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio telescope, shows the longest known jet pair from a black hole. Co-discoverer Aivin Gast from the University of Oxford named the two plasma jets after the giant Porphyrion from Greek mythology. They extend over 23 million light years, which corresponds to the size of 140 Milky Way galaxies in a row. The galaxy that harbours the ...
Scientists detect longest pair of jets streaming from a ... - Yahoo
WEB2 days ago · This undated image provided by Caltech, taken by Europe's LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio telescope, shows the longest known pair of black hole jets, as reported Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, in ...
Scientists detect longest pair of jets ... - Associated Press News
WEB2 days ago · NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have discovered the longest pair of jets streaming from a black hole in a distant galaxy. The jets shooting hot plasma are the largest ever spotted – about as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined up end-to-end. “This one has managed to reach a size that’s so big,” said Eileen Meyer, who studies black holes ...
Black hole jets on the scale of the cosmic web | Nature
WEB2 days ago · For the past 50 years, the known size range of black hole jet pairs ended at 4.6–5.0 Mpc (refs. 7–9), or 20–30% of a cosmic void radius in the Local Universe10. An observational lack of ...
Category: LOFAR - ASTRON
WEBSep 5, 2024 · The world-leading LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) Distributed Research Infrastructure has already revolutionised low-frequency radio astronomy research, resulting in an avalanche of scientific publications in the past decade.