Largest black hole jets ever found may change our understanding of the universe

A pair of black hole jets that span 140 Milky Way galaxies in length, or 23 million light years across, is so large that it may change our understanding of both black holes and the structure of the universe.

The jets, which Hardcastle and his team named Porphyrion, come from a black hole in a distant galaxy when the universe was just 6.3 billion years old, only half the age it is now. They identified the jet, as well as at least ten other jets that were also millions of light years across, using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) telescope, which consists of thousands of radio antennas in the Netherlands and Germany.



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[rspawn]

The length of the jets is about 10 times the distance from the Milkyway to Andromeda, the nearest large galaxy.

[GK-qcry]

That's an insane diameter and an insane amount of energy to push it that far out😮

[chrisarmstrong]

Hopefully, a future video will detail the mechanism that generates the jets.

[NotMePlease]

That’s the highway. Now, we fly on it.

[OzGoober]

140 time the size of the milky way, thanks

[ValidatingUsername]

Thanks for proving my theory, those that know it’s mine know it’s mine

[falvegas]

There's one hell of a lot of Energy In The Universe ---- AND WE KEEP BURNING THIS FOSSILE CRAP.

[AlexandervaltrezossyossburnLyn]

You know I can create black hole arrows too I don't have to be on the planet earth sprite walker you're always with me

[jackwt]

Yeah, it looks like you've observed black kernal producing baby galaxies.