Jet-launching structure resolved near the supermassive black hole in M87.

S Doeleman, Sheperd; L Fish, Vincent; E Schenck, David; Beaudoin, Christopher; Blundell, Ray; C Bower, Geoffrey; E Broderick, Avery; Chamberlin, Richard; Freund, Robert; Friberg, Per; A Gurwell, Mark; T P Ho, Paul; Honma, Mareki; Inoue, Makoto; P Krichbaum, Thomas; Lamb, James; Loeb, Abraham; Lonsdale, Colin; P Marrone, Daniel; M Moran, James; Oyama, Tomoaki; Plambeck, Richard; A Primiani, Rurik; E E Rogers, Alan; L Smythe, Daniel; SooHoo, Jason; Strittmatter, Peter; P J Tilanus, Remo; Titus, Michael; Weintroub, Jonathan; Wright, Melvyn; H Young, Ken; M Ziurys, Lucy

doi:10.1126/science.1224768

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Jet-launching structure resolved near the supermassive black hole in M87.

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Authors:

Sheperd S Doeleman

Vincent L Fish

David E Schenck

Abstract

Approximately 10% of active galactic nuclei exhibit relativistic jets, which are powered by the accretion of matter onto supermassive black holes. Although the measured width profiles of such jets on large scales agree with theories of magnetic collimation, the predicted structure on accretion disk ...

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