Astronomers just detected the biggest black hole jets ever seen – and named them Porphyrion

September 23rd, 2024

The Conversation, Other, 19/09/2024
The largest known black hole jets, 23 million light years across, have been discovered in the distant universe. This pair of particle beams launched by a supermassive black hole is over a hundred times larger than our galaxy, the Milky Way. […] Using CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) in Western Australia, we confirmed that NGC2663’s jet is one of the largest in the sky.

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