Researchers estimate that the jet spans nearly 200,000 light-years, more than twice the diameter of our own galaxy. It's the largest black hole jet we've discovered to date.

Even more surprisingly, the black hole that powers the quasar from which this jet erupts, designated J1601+3102, is relatively small. (For a quasar-powering supermassive black hole, that is.

Surprisingly lightweight and inky-black, jet is one of the oldest known gemstones, and has been carved and shaped by the artistically inclined since the Neolithic era (7,000-1,7000 B.C.).

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 used Chandra and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to study this black hole and its jet at a period they call "cosmic noon," which occurred about 3 billion years after the ...

An immense jet of material spewing out of a black hole 12 million light-years away is hitting something in space, but astronomers aren’t exactly sure what. The structure popped up in a recent ...

And it's not at all clear why a black hole's jet would alter that regularity. So, some of the people involved in the first study got time on the Hubble to go back and have another look.

Researchers have found new insights in the jet by focusing on the motion of the bright spots, or knots, within the jet. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal (2024). DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad73a1 ...