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Black hole, Porphyrion
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,
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
Astronomers Discover Record-Breaking Jets Escaping a Black Hole, the Longest Ever Seen
The energetic streams are together 23 million light-years in length—roughly as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined end to end
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23 million light-years-wide black hole jets discovered
The immense jets, named ‘
Porphyrion
’ after a mythological Greek giant, emerge from a supermassive
black
hole
at the ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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