This mind-boggling structure—nicknamed Porphyrion, after a giant from Greek mythology—contains the largest black hole jets physicists have ever seen, a team reported in Nature last month. And its ...

Anything this epic needs a nickname and the astronomers who found it have called it Porphyrion, after a giant in Greek myth, ...

They named the massive jet formation Porphyrion, after a mythological Greek giant who warred with the gods for control of the ...

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.

Astronomers have named the jets Porphyrion, after a giant from Greek mythology. They were spotted far enough away that the universe was only 6.3 billion years old – less than half its present age.

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