Astronomers have seen the largest jets ever found erupting from a black hole. The giant jet system Porphyrion is 23 million light-years long, equal to 140 side-by-side Milky Way galaxies.
The jets consist of electrons, positrons, and magnetic fields accelerated to nearly the speed of light, resulting from the ...
Two mighty beams of energy have been detected shooting in opposite directions from a supermassive black hole inside a distant ...
Two mighty beams of energy have been detected shooting in opposite directions from a supermassive black hole inside a distant ...
"They need to be sustained by a continued infall of matter into the black hole, something of the order of one solar mass (the mass of the sun) a year of material." Such jets, not visible to the naked ...