In a galaxy 7.5 billion light-years away, a supermassive black hole shoots out streams of magnetized plasma that span 140 ...

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

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

A supermassive black hole blasting astrophysical jets into space has carved out the biggest structure of galactic origin we've ever seen. It's been named Porphyrion, after the king of giants in ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

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.

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

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 used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...