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The jet has been found to emit X-rays, up until 0.2 arcseconds from a radio hot spot, which could be in reality a bend of the jet. [ 5 ] The components of the jet have been found to move by about 0.25–0.42 mas, which at the distance of the jet represent apparent speeds that are 5 to 15 times faster than the speed of light . [ 6 ]
An X-ray jet has been discovered in PKS 1127-145 by Chandra X-ray Observatory. [16] With an estimated length of 300 kiloparsecs, this makes the longest one detected so far in any of the high redshift quasars. [17] Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer also revealed a complex structure in the X-ray jet from the core with bright knots of different ...
3C 454.3 is a blazar (a type of quasar with a jet oriented toward Earth) located away from the galactic plane.It is one of the brightest gamma ray sources in the sky, [2] and is one of the most luminous astronomical object ever observed, with a maximum absolute magnitude of -31.4. [3]
PKS 0537-286 (referred to QSO 0537-286), also known as QSO B0537-286, is a quasar located in the constellation Columba. With a redshift of 3.104, the object is located 11.4 billion light years away [1] and belongs to the flat spectrum radio quasar blazar subclass (FSQR). [2] It is one of the most luminous known high-redshift quasars. [3]
PKS 0637-752 is a quasar located six billion light years in the constellation of Mensa. [1] It is noted for having a bright and largest astrophysical jet at redshift of z = 0.651. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Discovered by Einstein Observatory in 1980 through X-rays, [ 4 ] PKS 0637-752 was the first celestial object to be observed by Chandra X-ray Observatory ...
PKS 1830-211 is a gravitationally-lensed blazar in the southern constellation of Sagittarius, one of the most powerful such objects known. [4] It has a high redshift (z) of 2.507, an indicator of its significant distance. [2] This flat-spectrum radio quasar (FSRQ) [3] is one of the brightest extraterrestrial radio sources. [5]
Twin Quasar: 1979 Lensed into 2 images The lens is a galaxy known as YGKOW G1: First quasar found with a jet with apparent superluminal motion 3C 279: 1971 [25] [26] [27] First quasar found with the classic double radio-lobe structure 3C 47: 1964 First quasar found to be an X-ray source 3C 273: 1967 [39] First "dustless" quasar found
A blazar is an active galactic nucleus (AGN) with a relativistic jet (a jet composed of ionized matter traveling at nearly the speed of light) directed very nearly towards an observer. Relativistic beaming of electromagnetic radiation from the jet makes blazars appear much brighter than they would be if the jet were pointed in a direction away ...