The James Webb Telescope Discovers The Most Distant And Oldest Galaxies 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 Astronomers have discovered the largest known black hole jets, stretching an astonishing 23 million light-years To put it in perspective, that’s the length of 140 Milky Way galaxies aligned
Most Distant Galaxy Yet Discovered The energetic streams are together 23 million light-years in length—roughly as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined end to end A recently-discovered powerful cosmic lens, which magnifies profoundly distant objects in space Credit: William Sheu (UCLA) / Hubble Space Telescope There are funhouse mirrors in space Objects in Scientists have discovered the longest pair of jets streaming from a black hole in a distant galaxy Black holes eat most space debris that falls their way Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a pair of distant galaxies being twisted into a cosmic question mark thanks to a rare form of gravitational lensing
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