
Shadow to Jet: Astronomers Tie a 3,000‑Light‑Year Outflow to M87*’s Shadow
Using the Event Horizon Telescope’s VLBI observations of M87*, researchers traced the base of the galaxy’s 3,000‑light‑year jet to a region near the black hole’s shadow, linking jet launching to the accretion flow around the supermassive black hole (about 6.5 billion suns) and connecting theory to observation. The finding, based on 2021 data and building on the 2019 image of M87*, was published in Astronomy & Astrophysics.













