Viewed through the —a formation of 10 radio telescope antennas stretching from St. Croix in the Atlantic Ocean to Hawaiis Mauna Kea in the Pacific—the blazar looks like a galactic smear of tomato sauce on the cosmic lens. Whats actually captured in the false color image, though, is a bright orange jet of plasma, pointed roughly at us and stretching about 1,600 light years long, a distance that...
A Massive Radioactive Jet From the Early Universe Has Been Spotted
Found 27 days ago at Gizmodo
