Posted on 11/03/2025 12:02:15 AM PST by nickcarraway
Astronomers recently spotted two unprecedented plasma jets blasting out of a supermassive black hole and into space beyond its galaxy. The two extremely powerful plasma jets are the largest ever seen, measuring 23 million light-years from end to end. This distance would cross approximately 140 Milky Ways arranged side by side.
Researchers who spotted this unprecedented phenomenon called the pair of plasma jets “Porphyrion” after a giant in Greek mythology.
The two jets originate from the top and bottom of the supermassive black hole and have the combined power of trillions of suns.
What exactly are black hole jets? Black hole jet streams are a phenomenon made up of charged ions, electrons, and other particles. These are accelerated nearly to the speed of light by the enormous magnetic fields that surround black holes.
Astronomers have been aware of these jets for more than a century, but until recently, they were thought to be rare and not so extensive.
Grecian Delight supports Greece The two massive jets in question were first spotted by Europe’s Low-Frequency Array telescope. They were detected during a sky study that uncovered more than ten thousand of these.
Some of the black hole jets that have been spotted during this study are so powerful they push further than the black hole’s galaxy itself and deep into the voids of space.
These jets might have played a role in shaping the universe Scientists who have been studying black hole jets are now confident they can extinguish the formation of a star and also eject large amounts of material and energy deep into space.
Experts have determined that the two massive black hole jets discovered show that small things and large things in the universe are “intimately connected.” This discovery is extremely significant because the black hole where the streams originate is producing a structure on a scale that is similar to cosmic filaments and voids.
The researchers who found Porphyrion then used the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in India and the VM Keck Observatory in Hawaii to pinpoint the black hole jet’s location to a galaxy ten times more massive than the Milky Way and around 1.5 billion light-years from Earth.
These black hole jet streams are so old that they started to form once the universe was around 6.3 billion years old, which is less than half of its present age. Researchers also estimate it took the jets a billion years to grow to the length recently observed.
Following this discovery, researchers will turn their attention to the fact that these jets might have influenced the formation of galaxies by heating the medium in the filaments in space.
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It’s still not exactly known what causes these jets. But you have huge energies concentrated in a very small space driving them. Whole star clusters of matter swirling around at near light speed and crushed by gravitational forces billions of times anything we know. Our own knowledge of physics begins to break down.
Okay, VERY cool. But I hate it when articles about astronomy tell us about these things without also telling us WHERE they are located at. Which constellation are they in the direction of?? Who knows, maybe some of us have telescopes that we want to try to aim at it :-)
Now how in the world can they know the approximate age of the universe? Unless the earth is the very center of the universe wouldn’t that be impossible to measure?
(Now how in the world can they know the approximate age of the universe?)
Date stamped on the back of the neck (old Monty Python joke 🤣 modified)
Says “10 Billion Years B.C.” 😄🤣😁
“Black hole jet streams are a phenomenon made up of charged ions, electrons, and other particles. These are accelerated nearly to the speed of light by the enormous magnetic fields that surround black holes.”
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Perhaps “Mainstream Science” will finally accept that it’s an “Electric Universe” we’re living in, and the electric part matters a whole lot more than they’ve been admitting to.
A magnetically and gravitationally contained micro singularity would be the greatest power source imaginable set into spinning motion and feed it matter at it’s accretion disk out the top and bottom comes jets like this AR near light speeds charged particles can could be captured and slowed down against billions of election volts the net output would be billions of volts and millions of not billions of amps direct current. Simply put it would be a means of converting matter directly to energy at near E=MC^2 levels of efficiency and output.
A particle accelerator like a scaled up large hadron collider could in theory create a nano singularity which if you contained it and started feeding it matter faster than it’s Hawkins radiation evaporates it at some point it would be metastable and you could spin it up a s feed that disk and the singularity itself. Course don’t lose containment or the planet is having it’s last bad day.
The universe is made of two forces. Yes, you may laugh about what I’m going to say, but keep reading. The two forces are named yin and yang by the Chinese. In the western world this is represented partially by what is termed Dark Energy and Dark Matter. One is energetic and expanding, the other contracting, solidifying, and structuring. Examples of this architecture are seen everywhere, in the structured atomic nucleus versus the expanding electron cloud encircling it.
In this case, suns and matter get contracted, solidified and further structured in the biggest contracting force of the universe, a black hole.
According to the theories of yin and yang, which I cannot all explain in this post, at the extreme, yin turns into yang and yang turns into yin. A typical process that we see in the formation and function of the suns.
The same rule of physics applies to black holes. At a certain point, the contracting function gets to an extreme and releases an expending fuction, i.e. these massive jets of energy. The question is, at what point has a system reached its extreme. Good question. Go ask the suns. Each sun has a specific individualized amount of concentrating force for a nuclear reaction to take place. The same law applies to black holes.
I’m reminded of the weapon in “Foundation”
they cut the universe open and count its rings.
Bkmk
In space, there is no top and bottom.
Socrates: “The beginning of wisdom is knowing you know nothing”. A bit of a paradox. How about: “No matter how much you know, there’s a lot more that you don’t”?
It’s based on the expansion rate of the universe, known as the Hubble Constant. If you know how fast it is expanding, it’s simple to calculate how long it took for things to travel as far as they have, based on their distance from us. The earth doesn’t have to be at the center of it all, since all points are expanding away equally from all others. Theoretically.
But I hate it when articles about astronomy tell us about these things without also telling us WHERE they are located at. Which constellation are they in the direction of?? Who knows, maybe some of us have telescopes that we want to try to aim at it
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If they told you, you would aim your twin 10 meter backyard scopes and see them for yourself? Else you are not going to see anything but stars and blackness.
Now how in the world can they know the approximate age of the universe?
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They were there. Else its just a guesstimate based on assumptions to fit their current theories. But they sound very intelligent ...
We could also remind these bastions of intelligence that for decades they have been telling us that nothing, absolutely nothing escapes a black hole - see how nonchalant they are about their profession ... almost Democrat-like.
a nuclear reaction to take place.
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That’s their theory - sort of like nothing escapes black holes ...
It’s based on the expansion rate of the universe, known as the Hubble Constant ... Theoretically
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As long as the Hubble Constant was always the same. Of which there is no proof, and will be none, until a time machine is invented so these people can go billions of years back in time to prove the Constant was always constant.
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