More strikingly, however, this work showed that Porphyrion’s black hole is also radiating strongly, making its total energy ...

In a galaxy 7.5 billion light-years away, a supermassive black hole shoots out streams of magnetized plasma that span 140 Milky Ways in length. This mind-boggling structure—nicknamed Porphyrion, after ...

Before Porphyrion was spotted, the largest confirmed black hole jet system was Alcyoneus. The same team found Alcyoneus, also ...

Porphyrion was around during an earlier part ... The findings are reported in a new paper, ‘Black hole jets on the scale of the cosmic web’, published in the journal Nature.

The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...

An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek giant, these jets span roughly 7 megaparsecs, or 23 million light-years.

A fresh analysis of decades-old X-ray black hole jet data has revealed bright, lumpy features with mysterious speed changes.

Gas swirling around black holes forms disks that are among the most effective energy converters in the universe, emitting ...