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See also: Quasar, List of quasars 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 ]
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] The radio jet exhibits superluminal motion for 0.12 to 12 mas, with apparent speeds that accelerate from ~5 c to ~15c within 0.3 mas.
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 ...
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
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 ...
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TXS 0506+056 is a very high energy blazar – a quasar with a relativistic jet pointing directly towards Earth – of BL Lac-type. [3] With a redshift of 0.3365 ± 0.0010, [3] it has a luminosity distance of about 1.75 gigaparsecs (5.7 billion light-years). [4]