Such a discovery is essential since it invalidates long-held assumptions regarding the size and effects that black hole jets ...
Since 2012, the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) Survey has studied the regions around 101 galaxies that are similar ...
A long-term survey of small, "satellite" galaxies that orbit larger galaxies across the universe offers new insights into our ...
Astronomers have discovered a black hole emitting energy in jets longer than the width of 140 Milky Way galaxies.
The largest-ever black hole jets ever seen hint that these cosmic monsters may play an even more significant role in shaping ...
Astronomers have identified the largest black hole jet structure known, named Porphyrion, stretching 23 million light-years ...
The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic ...
A new study led by the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), and with contributions from Radboud University's Marijke ...
An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek ...
These jets, named Porphyrion after a giant from Greek mythology, are 30% larger than any previously documented and extend 140 times the diameter of the Milky Way. Detected using the LOFAR radio ...
extending about 140 times the diameter of our vast Milky Way galaxy. The black hole resides at the heart of a galaxy about 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. A light-year is the distance light ...
A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...