After taking the first images of black holes, the ground-breaking Event Horizon Telescope and the Global mm-VLBI Array poised to reveal how black holes launch powerful jets into space. Now, a research team led by scientists from the Onsala Space Observatory, the University Würzburg and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy has shown that the EHT will be able to make exciting images of a supermassive black hole and its jets in the galaxy NGC 1052. The measurements, made with interconnected radio telescopes, also confirm strong magnetic fields close to the black hole’s edge. Read more here.
The original paper: The putative center in NGC 1052, (DOI)
Image: © Chalmers University of Technology | 3dVision | Johan Bournonville | Anne-Kathrin Baczko; How do black holes launch their powerful jets? Artist’s impression of the centre of galaxy NGC 1052, reached through layers of gas and dust to almost reveal the supermassive black hole. New measurements now show that the final close-up of the black hole – and the origin of its jets – are within the reach of the Event Horizon Telescope.