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A 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 ...

Opposing fountains of plasma and particles spanning 23 million light-years are the longest pair of black hole jets ever seen. That’s far enough to influence the evolution of the universe on cosmic ...

Nicknamed Porphyrion after a Greek giant by co-discoverer Aivin Gast of the University of Oxford, the jet system spans 23 million light-years, the equivalent of 140 Milky Way galaxies lined up back to ...

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Astronomers have made an astonishing discovery with a pair of black hole jets stretching 23 million light-years across the cosmos. These colossal jets, nicknamed Porphyrion, are the largest ever ...

The largest known black hole jets, 23 million light years across, have been discovered in the distant universe. This pair of particle beams launched by a supermassive black hole is over a hundred ...

Astronomers have detected two massive jets of energy from a supermassive black hole, extending over 23 million light-years. Named Porphyrion, these jets are 30% larger than any previously known. Using ...

Astronomers have discovered a black hole emitting energy in jets longer than the width of 140 Milky Way galaxies. An artist’s concept of Porphyrion, a jet of material 23 million light-years long that ...

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.

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