A new study led by the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), and with contributions from Radboud University's Marijke ...

Astronomers have spotted a massive pair of jets releasing material from a distant black hole. The jets are so large they span ...

Astronomers have detected two massive jets of energy from a supermassive black hole, extending over 23 million light-years.

“The Milky Way would be a little dot in these two giant eruptions ... If the jet was shrunk to the size of the Earth, the black hole would be just two-tenths of a millimeter across. “These giant jets ...

An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek ...

The newly discovered black hole-driven jets extend over 7 megaparsecs or 23 million light-years.

The largest-ever black hole jets ever seen hint that these cosmic monsters may play an even more significant role in shaping ...

We now know that black holes occur frequently throughout the universe. One Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our galaxy, ...

Astronomers have identified the largest black hole jet structure known, named Porphyrion, stretching 23 million light-years ...

The jets consist of electrons, positrons, and magnetic fields accelerated to nearly the speed of light, resulting from the ...

The unexpected size of these jets has astrophysicists wondering if supermassive ... To put that length into perspective, that ...