It’s been about a year since the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration released the first image of a black hole. That groundbreaking snapshot featured the supermassive black hole at the center of M87, a massive elliptical galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth.
Event Horizon Telescope Looks Into a Black Hole's Jet
A violent quasar reveals a mystery lurking at its center, thanks to high-resolution images that were never before possible.
Apr 7, 2020 4:00 PMApr 7, 2020 4:12 PM
The Event Horizon Telescope zoomed in on the jet spewing from the quasar 3C 279 in finer detail than ever before (right), blowing previous observations (left) out of the water. The new image revealed something unexpected: a feature perpendicular to the jet, which hints there may be complex forces at play.
(Credit: J.Y. Kim (MPIfR), Boston University Blazar program, and the EHT Collaboration)
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