Astronomers just detected the biggest black hole jets ever …
WEB17 hours ago · Porphyrion, by contrast, seems to have been happily powering its way through the cosmos for about 2 billion years, unperturbed. ... The most comprehensive sci-tech news coverage on the web.
Gargantuan Black Hole Jets Are Biggest Seen Yet - Astronomy
WEB2 days ago · 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. Porphyrion dates back to a …
Beyond Imagination: 140 Milky Ways Spanned by Record
WEB22 hours ago · Beyond Imagination: 140 Milky Ways Spanned by Record-Breaking Black Hole Jets. 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.
WEB"Porphyrion" (a giant in Greek mythology) by its discoverers at the California Institute of Technology in the United States. It dwarfs NGC2663's jet in actual size and is over 20 times larger—a true
Astronomers discover biggest ever seen black hole jets, which …
WEB2 days ago · 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.
Largest Black Hole Jets Ever Seen Create a Galactic Structure That …
WEBA supermassive black hole blasting astrophysical jets into space has carved out the biggest structure of galactic origin we've ever seen.. It's been named Porphyrion, after the king of giants in Greek mythology, and it spans, in total, some 7 megaparsecs across space-time.That's a whopping 23 million light-years from end to end, making it a significant part of the cosmic web that connects the ...
Meet Porphyrion, the largest pair of black hole jets ever seen
WEB2 days ago · Meet Porphyrion, the largest pair of black hole jets ever seen. ... Science News was founded in 1921 as an independent, nonprofit source of accurate information on the latest news of science ...
Black hole blasts largest jet ever seen at 23 million light-years long
WEB2 days ago · The giant jet system Porphyrion is 23 million light-years long, equal to 140 side-by-side Milky Way galaxies. ... And if you have a news tip, correction or comment, let us know at: community@space ...
Black hole jets on the scale of the cosmic web | Nature
WEB2 days ago · For the past 50 years, the known size range of black hole jet pairs ended at 4.6–5.0 Mpc (refs. 7–9), or 20–30% of a cosmic void radius in the Local Universe10. An observational lack of ...
Gargantuan Black Hole Jets Are Biggest Seen Yet
WEB2 days ago · The jet megastructure, nicknamed Porphyrion after a giant in Greek mythology, dates to a time when our universe was 6.3 billion years old, or less than half its present age of 13.8 billion years. These fierce outflows—with a total power output equivalent to trillions of suns—shoot out from above and below a …