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Cosmic monster: 23 million light-years-wide black hole jets discovered by Caltech
Astronomers have discovered the largest known black hole jets, stretching an astonishing 23 million light-years. To put it in perspective, that’s the length of 140 Milky Way galaxies aligned end-to-end.
Meet Porphyrion, the largest pair of black hole jets ever seen
The two plasma fountains, spanning 23 million light-years, could shape cosmic structures far beyond their home galaxy.
Astronomers Discovered the Biggest Pair of Black Hole Jets Ever, and It's the Stuff of Cosmic Horror
In other words, one black hole is continuously erupting energy and plasma into space across a distance more than 140 times longer than our whole galaxy, and it’s carrying the power of trillions of stars. Oei and his colleagues nicknamed the pair Porphyrion. “The Milky Way would be a little dot in those two giant eruptions,” says Oei in a statement.
The Biggest Black Hole Jets Ever Seen Are 140 Milky Ways Long
At 23 million light-years long, the black hole jets are the largest yet seen. How big is 23 million light-years, you ask? It’s the equivalent of 140 Milky Ways lined up end-to-end. The study describing the jet megastructure, dubbed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek giant, is published today in Nature.
Biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen
Astronomers have discovered the largest pair of black hole jets, stretching 23 million light-years. That’s like lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies one after another!
Astronomers find the biggest black hole jets ever – and they are astonishingly vast
Scientists have found the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen. Such jets are vast blasts of radiation and particles that erupt out of supermassive black holes. Milky Way jets are the largest galaxy-made structures in the universe.
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,
Astronomers discover massive record-breaking black hole jets
Astronomers have found the largest black hole jets ever recorded, spanning 23 million light-years and potentially influencing the formation of galaxies across the cosmic web.
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