Early follow-up observations included a search for the galaxy that produced the fountain in question. The two objects are in exactly the same position, but one of them has corners stretched along the axis of the fountains, indicating that this galaxy is the most likely source of fountain production. The mass of this galaxy is almost 10 times the mass of the Milky Way and according to spectroscopic data, it is located approximately 6 billion years after the Big Bang or half the age of the universe.
The researchers estimate that the apparent length of Porphyryon will reach 6.4 megapars. This value only indicates the actual length if we look at it from a vertical angle. According to estimates, the actual physical distance is slightly more than 7 MPa, but again this measurement is not exact.
Using modeling, the researchers estimate that the material inside the fountains moves at approximately 0.012 times the speed of light; In other words, it will take half a billion years for them to reach their current size; Therefore, the black hole that emitted these fountains had a long period of active feeding. In general, based on estimates, the materials inside the fountain emit an output energy of 10 to the power of 55 joules in the intergalactic space. This energy is usually seen in the collision of complete galaxy clusters.
Cosmic implications
One of the most prominent features of fountains is their direct movement; So that the material inside them is not affected by any nearby galaxies or scattered in irregular patches of intergalactic material. According to the results, being direct means that the host galaxy is located in a strand of dark matter network that is spread out in the universe and provides the gravitational pull necessary to collect enough material and form galaxies. Therefore, according to its dimensions, Porphyrion has completely removed the material from the aforementioned string, and the fountains move in a vacuum with very little material.
As mentioned above, there are many huge fountains. However, according to the researchers, porphyrion can rarely be detected above the noise level with current radio equipment. If this fountain were only slightly less energetic or located further back in the history of the universe, we would not have been able to discover it.
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It should also be mentioned that the mentioned project searched only 15% of the entire night sky and it is clear that we missed a large number of fountains with similar dimensions from the early history of the world. The researchers estimate that each dark matter strand in the cosmic web probably had a pair of similar-scale fountains.
What do the above findings mean for the world? The fact that fountains pull material out of the cosmic fabric means that they can influence the growth of galaxies; But the scale of these fountains means that material from one galaxy can find its way into an entirely different galaxy. Given that the filaments were closer together early in the universe’s history, some material may have moved between the filaments in the direction of the black hole fountains.
It is not yet clear whether the fountains affect the evolution of the universe or not; But this research shows how valuable it can be to evaluate fountain systems in models and investigate their impact.
