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.

Observations from the Event Horizon Telescope may reveal a secret merger in our supermassive black hole's past, potentially ...

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.

Two mighty beams of energy have been detected shooting in opposite directions from a supermassive black hole inside a distant ...

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 ...

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The event would have released an epic gravitational wave we sadly were not around to measure – even the Sun didn’t exist at ...

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