3 days ago · Here’s the largest-ever radio jet in optical and radio wavelengths. The optical image is in red and shows the bright, active galaxy, called a quasar. And the yellow component is the jet traced ...

3 days ago · Astronomers have made an astonishing discovery: the largest radio jet ever observed in the early universe, spanning an incredible 200,000 light-years—double the width of our Milky Way galaxy.This colossal jet, streaming from a quasar known as J1601+3102, challenges our understanding of how supermassive black holes shaped the cosmos in its infancy.

5 days ago · This is the largest radio jet ever found this early in the history of the universe. The jet was first identified using the international Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) Telescope, a network of radio ...

5 days ago · * An example of a monster radio jet found in the nearby Universe is the 23 million-light-year-long jet, named Porphyrion, which was observed 6.3 billion years after the Big Bang.

radio jet, material spewing from the centres of some galaxies at close to the speed of light and emitting strong radio waves. Radiograph produced by the Very Large Array of the double-lobed radio galaxy Cygnus A at 6-cm wavelength.

18 hours ago · The jet was first identified using the international Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) Telescope, a network of radio telescopes throughout Europe. Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick. Astronomers have discovered a massive, double-lobed radio jet stretching 200,000 light-years from a quasar that existed when the Universe was just 1.2 billion years old.

5 days ago · The double-sided radio wave is estimated to be at least 200,000 light-years across. A light-year is 5.8 trillion miles. Discovered just a few years ago, the quasar powering this jet formed when the universe was just 9% of its current age — within the first 1.2 billion years.

5 days ago · The radio jet originates from a quasar named J1601+3102, which formed when the Universe was just 1.2 billion years old – less than 10% of its current age. Quasars are extremely bright galactic cores powered by supermassive black holes that eject vast amounts of energy. Radio astronomy at Durham

5 days ago · At double the width of our Milky Way galaxy, this jet of radio waves is the biggest ever detected so early in the history of the universe, astronomers reported Thursday.

6 days ago · Making use of the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by NSF NOIRLab, astronomers have characterized the largest-ever early-Universe radio jet. Historically, such large radio jets have remained elusive in the distant Universe. With these observations, astronomers have valuable new insights ...