It’s the equivalent of 140 Milky Ways lined up end-to-end. The study describing the jet megastructure, dubbed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek giant, is published today in Nature.

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.

I t is a well-known fact among many that tabletop games are pretty expensive, especially among Warhammer 40K fans. Models of ...

The newly discovered pair, nicknamed Porphyrion after a rebellious giant in Greek mythology, were spotted in observations from LOFAR, a network of radio wave detectors in the Netherlands.

The gigantic jets have been given a suitably mythic name, with the team that discovered the megastructure dubbing them "Porphyrion" in reference to the giant offspring of Gaia in Greek mythology.

A new variant has entered the COVID-19 picture, and scientists have warned that it might soon surge to dominance. XEC, which was first identified in Germany in June, has now been spotted in ...

COVID-19 variant trackers are now closely watching the rise of a new virus variant called XEC, which has been spotted around the world and in half of states across the United States. Health ...

As flu season nears, so do new COVID-19 variants. A newly discovered COVID strain known as XEC continues to spread rapidly across multiple countries, including the U.S. Scripps Research’s ...

The gigantic jets have been given a suitably mythic name, with the team that discovered the megastructure dubbing them "Porphyrion" in reference to the giant offspring of Gaia in Greek mythology.