In a galaxy 7.5 billion light-years away, a supermassive black hole shoots out streams of magnetized plasma that span 140 ...

More strikingly, however, this work showed that Porphyrion’s black hole is also radiating strongly, making its total energy ...

Before Porphyrion was spotted, the largest confirmed black hole jet system was Alcyoneus. The same team found Alcyoneus, also ...

Porphyrion was around during an earlier part ... The findings are reported in a new paper, ‘Black hole jets on the scale of the cosmic web’, published in the journal Nature.

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.

spanning 23 million light-years and named Porphyrion. Originating from a supermassive black hole in a galaxy that existed when the universe was 6.3 billion years old, these powerful jets may have ...