All articles tagged with #cosmic jet
Astronomers have captured a detailed image of a cosmic jet from the blazar PKS 1424+240, revealing a toroidal magnetic field and a head-on jet alignment that amplifies high-energy gamma rays and neutrinos, helping to solve a long-standing mystery about its brightness and particle acceleration mechanisms.
Astronomers have used a network of radio telescopes to capture the most detailed view ever of a jet of plasma from a supermassive black hole. The jet, which travels at nearly the speed of light, exhibits complex, twisted patterns near its source, challenging the standard theory of jet formation. The observations were made possible by combining data from multiple telescopes, including the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany. The study of the inner jet in the blazar 3C 279 reveals the presence of helical filaments and suggests the need for new theoretical models to explain their formation and evolution.