A deep look at a nearby galaxy’s black hole reveals the launching point of intergalactic jets

The amazing Event Horizon Telescope has done it again: It has taken extraordinarily high-resolution images of the nearby galaxy Centaurus A, revealing twin beams of material shooting away from the supermassive black hole in its heart at a significant fraction of the speed of light.

The Event Horizon Telescope is actually many different telescopes around the world that can observe an object simultaneously, then have their data combined in a way that gives them the resolving power of a telescope ...