JWST captures clearest-ever image of M87's supermassive black hole jet

The James Webb Space Telescope has produced the clearest-ever infrared image of the jet from the M87 galaxy's supermassive black hole — the same black hole astronomers first photographed — revealing unprecedented jet structure and providing new constraints on accretion and relativistic outflow physics.

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JWST's new image demonstrates the telescope's ability to resolve fine jet and accretion structures in the infrared, building on its proven long-wavelength imaging strengths (JWST MIRI captures red, long-wavelength view of the universe’s first galaxies).
The target is the same supermassive black hole astronomers first photographed, and this observation extends JWST's contributions to black hole science following its recent detections and analyses of early black holes (JWST finds oldest-known black hole and unexpected early-galaxy rotation patterns).

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