Astronomers just detected the biggest black hole jets ever …
WEB1 day ago · Credit: LOFAR Collaboration / Martijn Oei (Caltech) The largest known black hole jets, 23 million light years across, have been discovered in the distant universe.
Image from the LOFAR radio telescope - dlr.de
WEBThis image, taken by the European LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio telescope, shows the longest known jet pair from a black hole. Co-discoverer Aivin Gast from the University of Oxford named the two plasma jets after the giant Porphyrion from Greek mythology. They extend over 23 million light years, which corresponds to the size of 140 Milky Way galaxies in a row. The galaxy that harbours the ...
Gargantuan Black Hole Jets Are Biggest Seen Yet
WEB3 days ago · This picture, taken by Europe's LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio telescope, shows the longest known pair of black hole jets. 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 back.
Scientists detect longest pair of jets streaming from a ... - Yahoo
WEB3 days ago · This undated image provided by Caltech, taken by Europe's LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio telescope, shows the longest known pair of black hole jets, as reported Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, in ...
Musk's satellites 'blocking' view of the universe - BBC
WEB3 days ago · Getty Images. Starlink satellites are usually easily seen by the naked eye in the night sky. Radio waves from Elon Musk’s growing network of satellites are blocking scientists’ ability to peer ...
Black hole jets on the scale of the cosmic web | Nature
WEB3 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 ...
Search for intelligent aliens explores new radio-frequency realms
WEBOct 26, 2023 · LOFAR is an array of radio antennas that span hundreds of kilometers across Europe, centered in the Netherlands but with additional stations in France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Poland, Sweden...
LOFAR | ASTRON
WEBJun 12, 2020 · With its huge sensitivity and enormous computational power, LOFAR has already discovered over fifty new pulsars, including a pair of millisecond pulsars, as part of its all-sky survey, LOFAR Tied-Array All-Sky Survey (LOTAAS), and dedicated searches.
Most detailed-ever images of galaxies revealed using LOFAR
WEBAug 17, 2021 · Our new high-resolutions observations taken with LOFAR have revealed that this jet grows stronger and weaker every few hundred thousand years. This variability produces the beautiful structures seen in the giant lobes, each of which is about as large as the Milky Way galaxy.
LOFAR antennas unveil giant glow of radio emission surrounding …
WEBNov 2, 2022 · A Dutch-Italian-German team of astronomers has observed a huge glow of radio emission around a cluster of thousands of galaxies. They combined data from thousands of LOFAR antennas that were...
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