An unprecedentedly large "fire dragon" emerges from a monstrous black hole.

(NLĐO) - From a location 7.5 billion light years from Earth, a pair of "cosmic fire dragons," 140 times the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy, emerged from a black hole.

From a location 7.5 billion light-years from Earth, the central black hole of a massive galaxy has ejected two streams of rays resembling two giant fire-dragons, the most terrifying streams of radiation astronomers have ever recorded.

The monstrous black hole is emitting a pair of "cosmic fire dragons" - Photo: SPACE.COM

According to Space.com, the pair of "fire dragons" are 23 million light-years long, which is equivalent to 140 Milky Way galaxies containing Earth lined up side-by-side.

It's a pair of symmetrical jets, ejected perpendicularly to the galactic plane, from either side of the black hole.

According to astronomer Martin Hardcastle from the University of Hertfordshire (UK), these two beams release billions of thousands of times more energy than our Sun every second.

Therefore, the monstrous black hole that created it is also one of the most powerful black holes known to humankind, with matter falling into the black hole at an extremely fast rate, thus releasing an extremely powerful jet of recoil.

Because light takes billions of years to travel to Earth, the black holes we see are actually objects from the past, when the universe was only about half its current age.

That was a time when the world was far more turbulent than it is now, with many factors capable of disrupting these jet streams. They must have been incredibly powerful to withstand those forces and extend 23 million light-years across intergalactic space.

The research was recently published in the scientific journal Nature.

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