Astronomers have just discovered what may be the largest black hole known to date. The giant black hole has a mass of 30 billion suns and sits at the center of a galaxy located hundreds of ...

The largest known black hole jets, 23 million light years across, have been discovered in the distant universe. This pair of particle beams launched by a supermassive black hole is over a hundred ...

The largest blob-like structure near the center is a separate smaller jet system. Credit: LOFAR Collaboration / Martijn Oei (Caltech) Researchers have known that at least hundreds of black hole ...

A newly analyzed radio image reveals twin lobes stretching roughly 66,000 light-years on each side of a quasar called ...

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"We've known about these structures made by jets from galactic ... Porphyrion was the greatest of the giants alongside Alcyoneus, who lends his name to the next largest set of black hole jets, which ...

Porphyrion's enormous size — roughly 40 Milky Ways bigger than the previously biggest known jet structure named Alcyoneus — suggests that the belchings of supermassive black holes played an ...

Sloan Digital Sky Survey The ultramassive black hole known as TON 618 sits amidst a distant quasar (circled) and is one of the largest yet to be discovered (Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey ...

If confirmed, the cosmic juggernaut, known as an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH), would be the second-largest black hole ever found in our galaxy. IMBHs are an extremely rare subset of black ...

which is now known as Gaia BH3 is estimated to be the same mass as 33 suns, making it the heaviest black hole in the Milky Way. It’s also one of the three largest known black holes in our galaxy ...

WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - Astronomers have discovered a black hole with a mass about 33 times greater than that of our sun, the biggest one known in the Milky Way aside from the ...

Over the past decade, astronomers have discovered black holes much, much larger, known as ultramassive black holes. Some are 1,000 times more massive than Sagittarius A* and large enough to span ...