An international team of astronomers has discovered "Porphyrion," a black hole jet system spanning 23 million light-years, establishing it as the largest known structure of its kind, 140 times 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.
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.