These jets sure are puzzling to astrophysicists …
https://www.yahoo.com/news/huge-black-h ... 00912.html
This Huge Black Hole Jet—the Biggest Ever—Could Change Our Understanding of the Universe
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In 2022, Martijn Oei—a Ph.D. student at the University of Leiden—discovered a massive, 16 million light-year long jet nicknamed Alcyoneus (a giant from Greek mythology). Now a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech, Oei has one-upped himself and discovered a new, record-breaking pair of black hole jet stretching an astonishing 23 million light-years across. … snip …
Named Porphyrion (another one of those Greek giants), these jets originate from a black hole roughly 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. And they pack quite the punch, delivering a power output equivalent to trillions of Suns. … snip …
“When we first found the giant jets,” Oei, who was the lead author of the new study, said in a press statement, “we were quite surprised. We had no idea that there were this many.”
So, how exactly do these incredibly large structures form? Well, scientists aren’t sure. When analyzing Alcyoneus back in 2022, Oei and his team theorized that the host galaxy for this pair of jets must contain either a higher-than-normal amount of stellar material or incredibly strong jet streams. But the research showed that, if anything, the galaxy was below-average on both accounts. Another lingering mystery is that the earlier universe would’ve been much more dense than it is today, so you’d expect these jets to become destabilized more quickly. But, so far, the evidence suggests that isn’t the case.
“Martijn’s work has shown us that there isn’t anything particularly special about the environments of these giant sources that causes them to reach those large sizes,” Martin Hardcastle, a co-author of the study, said in a press statement. “My interpretation is that we need an unusually long-lived and stable accretion event around the central, supermassive black hole to allow it to be active for so long—about a billion years—and to ensure that the jets keep pointing in the same direction over all of that time. What we’re learning from the large number of giants is that this must be a relatively common occurrence.”
It’s slowly becoming clear that these cosmos-spanning black hole jets are more commonplace than previously believed, and Oei is interested in investigating how these structures might’ve impacted the evolution of the early universe—especially as it pertains to magnetism.
“The magnetism on our planet allows life to thrive, so we want to understand how it came to be,” Oei said in a press statement. “We know magnetism pervades the cosmic web, then makes its way into galaxies and stars, and eventually to planets, but the question is: Where does it start? Have these giant jets spread magnetism through the cosmos?”
Notice. They never mention electric current, even though we know it's ubiquitous out there. All they talk about is magnetism, like it can exist without electric current. That’s what mainstream astrophysicists appear to believe … because that’s what they’ve been taught.
And notice how the origin of these jets appears to defy everything they thought they knew (AGAIN) … that they were telling the public they knew (WHEN THEY DIDN'T). And because they haven’t adequately explained jets in the past and apparently aren’t going to be able to do so now even, what's their response? ... to move to another gnome … how jets “spread magnetism through the cosmos.”
These people are hopeless. But it's a great gig for them and those who live off their work product.