EHT image of quasar 3C 279
![EHT image of quasar 3C 279](https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/EHT_3C279_3601_Average_ThreePipelines.png)
The Event Horizon Telescope observed the finest detail ever seen in a jet produced by a supermassive black hole. Quasar 3C 279 contains a black hole about one billion times more massive than our Sun. Twin fire-hose-like jets of plasma erupt from the black hole and disk system at velocities close to the speed of light: a consequence of the enormous forces unleashed as matter descends into the black hole’s immense gravity.
Credit: Kim et al. (2020), EHT Collaboration
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