Astronomers Discover Colossal Radio Jet From Early Universe
The jet is at least 200,000 light-years long, making it twice the width of the Milky Way. It formed when the universe was less than 10% its current age of roughly13.77 billion years. The teams research describing the jet ispublishedtoday inThe Astrophysical Journal Letters. An artist’s concept of the largest radio jet ever found in the early universe.Illustration: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick The recently studied jet spews out from a quasar, or an energetic galactic core, dubbed J1601+3102....