At the center of the Milky Way, there is a supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A* that is located 26,000 light-years away. It is 14.6 million miles wide and is four million times the mass of the ...
The newly discovered black hole-driven jets extend over 7 megaparsecs or 23 million light-years.
Astronomers have spotted an absolutely colossal cosmic chimney that stretches as far as 140 Milky Ways lined up side by side. These jumbo jets are being blasted from a supermassive black hole.
Learn where to find Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn in July. The bright star Fomalhaut and the Milky Way are great skywatching targets as well. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...