Pair of huge plasma jets spotted blasting out of gigantic black hole

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/sep/18/huge-plasma-jets-spotted-gigantic-black-hole-porphyrion

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  1. Cranjesmcbasketball1 on

    “Streams are the largest ever seen, measuring 23m light years and with combined power of trillions of suns” – wow what a sub headline.

    It says these streams are almost the speed of light, I thought even light couldn’t escape a black hole, so how could something come out of it?

  2. Boeing has taken the unusual step of apologising, *’we’re sure this isn’t our fault this time, but just to be safe, yeah we done fucked up again, lolz’*

  3. Imagine you’d been evolving away for billions of years, colonized a few local star systems with your super hitech Bussard ramjets, then *this* arrives…