Porphyrion: Black Hole Jets on a Cosmic Scale
We've known about “black hole jet systems” for some time, but never one as big as Porphyrion: a 23,000,000 light-year giant.
I'll be talking about that today, along with how astronomers have been studying it, a plausible explanation for its extraordinary length, and a quick overview of how we've been thinking about this universe.
- Cosmology: From the Cosmic Ocean to the Cosmic Web
- Porphyrion and Cosmic Scale
- Radio Telescopes: LOFAR and —
- Fanaroff-Riley Classification
- That's Odd: Porphyrion's Size, and an Explanation
- "...The Heavens ... Like a Tent to Dwell In"
More at A Catholic Citizen in America.
(A huge black hole jet system is on the scale of superclusters. A quick look at four millennia of cosmology, living with vastness. Includes a Caltech video.)
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