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Black hole, Porphyrion
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
Truly Supermassive Black Hole Has Jets Spanning 23 Million Light-Years, The Biggest Ever Seen
The jets shooting out from an enormous black hole are larger than was thought theoretically possible, and may change ideas about how galaxies developed. This pair are the longest, and therefore most powerful,
Largest black hole jets ever seen are 23 million light years long
Astronomers found the biggest pair of black hole jets ever observed, stretching 23 million light years. and named this system Porphyrion.
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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.
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Astronomers discover biggest ever seen black hole jets, which blast hot plasma well beyond their own host galaxy
"The Milky Way would be a little dot in these two giant eruptions." The jet megastructure, nicknamed
Porphyrion
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