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The largest-ever pair of radiation jets has been discovered bursting out of a distant supermassive black hole, burning brighter than 100 galaxies, or over a trillion stars. From the end of one jet to the end of the other, the pair measures roughly 7 megaparsecs or about 23 million light-years, making them the longest jets ever found, according to a new paper in the journal Nature. Before these jets—nicknamed Porphyrion after a giant in ancient Greek myth—were discovered, it was thought that supermassive black hole jets couldn’t get larger than…