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.).

A Colossal Jet From a Modest Black Hole What makes J1601+3102 especially intriguing is not just its enormous size, but its source. The quasar, visible when the universe was only nine percent of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

At 8:46 p.m., two minutes before the collision, an air traffic controller tracking both the Black Hawk and the incoming jet told the helicopter’s aircrew that American Airlines Flight 5342 was ...