What are the largest galaxy-made structures in the Universe?
ℹ️ Astrophysical jets are collimated streams of magnetized plasma produced by compact accreting objects, e.g. neutron stars or black holes.
When sustained for megayears (such long-lived coherence being yet unknown), these jets from supermassive black (SMBHs) holes become the largest galaxy-made structures in the Universe.
Named Porphyrion, after the king of giants in Greek mythology, the jets:
🌌stretch for around 23 million light-years – as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies
🌠are born at the heart of a galaxy located around 7.5 billion light-years away and are seen as they were when the 13.8 billion-year-old universe was just 6.3 billion years old
🔥put out trillions of times more energy per second than our sun does.
🌐 In terrestrial dimensions, this SMBH would have the size of 0.2 millimeters and the jets – the size of the Earth: an amoeba that generates a powerful fountain of energy the size of the entire planet!
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ℹ️ Astrophysical jets are collimated streams of magnetized plasma produced by compact accreting objects, e.g. neutron stars or black holes.
When sustained for megayears (such long-lived coherence being yet unknown), these jets from supermassive black (SMBHs) holes become the largest galaxy-made structures in the Universe.
Named Porphyrion, after the king of giants in Greek mythology, the jets:
🌌stretch for around 23 million light-years – as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies
🌠are born at the heart of a galaxy located around 7.5 billion light-years away and are seen as they were when the 13.8 billion-year-old universe was just 6.3 billion years old
🔥put out trillions of times more energy per second than our sun does.
🌐 In terrestrial dimensions, this SMBH would have the size of 0.2 millimeters and the jets – the size of the Earth: an amoeba that generates a powerful fountain of energy the size of the entire planet!
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