Astronomers have detected two massive jets of energy from a supermassive black hole, extending over 23 million light-years. Named Porphyrion, these jets are 30% larger than any previously known. Using the LOFAR radio telescope network,

The black hole spins incredibly fast, at an angle that does not align with the rest of the galaxy. For a long time, astronomers didn't know why that was, but new data from the Event Horizon Telescope has revealed a clue about the black hole's past.

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. That is equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies back-to-back. Credit: E. Wernquist / D. Nelson (IllustrisTNG Collaboration) / M. Oei

Black holes suck in anything and everything that comes near them, even light cannot escape after crossing one of their event horizons, However they also produce massive outflows of plasma and one of those astrophysical jets just produced the largest megastructure ever observed.