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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
Biggest black hole jets ever seen are as long as 140 Milky Ways
The largest-ever black hole jets ever seen hint that these cosmic monsters may play an even more significant role in shaping galaxies than previously thought.
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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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Black Hole Swarm Detected in Ancient Star Cluster in the Milky Way
Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes is traversing through the ...
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