A black hole in a far-off corner of the universe has been caught spewing enormous jets of energy, spanning a mind-boggling 23 million light-years. For context, that’s 140 times the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy, a distance so vast it could reshape how astronomers understand the universe’s evolution. Named
A black hole in a far-off corner of the universe has been caught spewing enormous jets of energy, spanning a mind-boggling 23 million light-years. For context, that’s 140 times the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy, a distance so vast it could reshape how astronomers understand the universe’s evolution. Named Porphyrion, after a mythical Greek giant, this jet system has smashed previous records. It’s twice the size of the prior record-holder, also discovered by the same team of international astronomers.
