Astronomers have spotted a massive pair of jets releasing material from a distant black hole. The jets are so large they span about 140 Milky Way galaxies in length.

Porphyrion’s massive jets extend in polar directions from a supermassive black hole that lays in the center of a galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way roughly 7.5 billion light-years ...

Astronomers used an array of telescopes to find the most massive radio jet in the early universe. The celestial object is hundreds of thousands of light-years long.

Astronomers have named the jets Porphyrion, after a giant from Greek mythology. They were spotted far enough away that the universe was only 6.3 billion years old – less than half its present age.

Porphyrion was discovered by astronomers using the International LOFAR Telescope, a network of radio sensors centered in the Netherlands, and stretching from Sweden to Bulgaria, and from Ireland ...

Meet Porphyrion, the largest pair of black hole jets ever seen The gargantuan fountains could shape cosmic structures far beyond their own galaxy ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Now Porphyrion shows that the largest and most powerful jets may have enough reach to influence the large-scale structure of the universe itself: the cosmic web, which is a network of filaments ...