In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have detected the longest pair of jets ever observed streaming from a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy.
The colossal jets, which shoot out hot plasma, stretch across a length equivalent to 140 Milky Way galaxies lined up end-to-end. This makes them the largest known jets of their kind in the universe.
“This one has managed to reach a size that’s so big,” remarked Eileen Meyer, an astrophysicist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who was not involved in the study.
The discovery was made using images captured by a European radio telescope and was reported on Wednesday in the journal Nature.
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