😳The jets stretch for around 23 million light-years, well beyond the limits of their host galaxy and stretching as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined up from end to end.
📌✨This latest finding suggests that these giant jet systems may have had a larger influence on the formation of galaxies in the young universe than previously believed. ‘ Porphyrion’ existed during an early epoch when the wispy filaments that connect and feed galaxies, known as the cosmic web, were closer together than they are now. That means enormous jets like Porphyrion reached across a greater portion of the cosmic web compared to jets in the local universe.