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 ...

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

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.

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

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

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center. Astronomers have even found these enormous celestial monsters in the early ...

An artist's conception of the distant black hole LID-568. Credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. da Silva / M. Zamani The powerful James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a phenomenon once thought ...