An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek ...

Astronomers have detected two massive jets of energy from a supermassive black hole, extending over 23 million light-years.

Astronomers have identified the largest black hole jet structure known, named Porphyrion, stretching 23 million light-years ...

The jets consist of electrons, positrons, and magnetic fields accelerated to nearly the speed of light, resulting from the ...

The newly discovered black hole-driven jets extend over 7 megaparsecs or 23 million light-years.

The new jet, announced in the journal Nature, has been dubbed “Porphyrion” (a giant in Greek mythology) by its discoverers at ...

The mass of gas being ejected from the galaxy is more than what’s needed to keep forming new stars. Essentially, the black ...

This massive galaxy, roughly the size of the Milky Way, has mostly stopped forming new stars, a state known as "quenched." ...

"This pair is not just the size of a solar system ... The observations pinpointed the home of the jets to a hefty galaxy ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered that supermassive black holes can exhaust the resources ...

The GS-10578 galaxy, known as Pablo’s Galaxy, formed about two billion years after the Big Bang but is essentially dead due ...

The largest-ever black hole jets ever seen hint that these cosmic monsters may play an even more significant role in shaping ...