EHT: Resolving the core of the J1924-2914 blazar

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EHT: Resolving the core of the J1924-2914 blazar

Scientists at the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have imaged the distant blazar J1924-2914 with unprecedented angular resolution, revealing previously unseen details of the source structure. The images reveal a helically bent jet emerging from a compact quasar core; EHT scientists managed to map the linearly polarized emission in the inner part of the J1924-2914 quasar.

Understanding the emission in J1924-2914 was also very important for the recently published EHT observations of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole in the center of our own galaxy.

Read the full EHT article here.

Image: © VLBA (Hunt et al. 2021), GMVA (Issaoun et al. 2019), EHT (Issaoun, Wielgus, et al. 2022). A multifrequency view of the bent jet in J1924-2914.

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