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This Chandra image shows important new details in the powerful jet shooting from the quasar 3C273, providing an X-ray view into the area between 3C273's core and the beginning of the jet.
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[edit]Description3C273- Chandra Observes Cosmic Traffic Pile-Up In Energetic Quasar Jet (2000-0131 - 0131 xray).jpg |
English: This Chandra image shows important new details in the powerful jet shooting from the quasar 3C273, providing an X-ray view into the area between 3C273's core and the beginning of the jet.High-powered jets driven from quasars, often at velocities very close to the speed of light, have long been perplexing for scientists. Instead of seeing a smooth stream of material driven from the core of the quasar, most optical, radio, and earlier X-ray observations have revealed inconsistent, "lumpy" clouds of gas. The recent Chandra data show a continuous X-ray flow in 3C273 from the core to the jet, which may reveal insight on the physical processes that power these jets. Scientists would like to learn why matter is violently ejected from the quasar's core, then appears to suddenly slow down. The energy emitted from the jet in 3C273 probably comes from gas that falls toward a supermassive black hole at the center of the quasar, but is redirected by strong electromagnetic fields into a collimated jet. While the black hole itself is not observed directly, scientists can discern properties of the black hole by studying the jet. The formation of the jet from the matter that falls into the black hole is a process that remains poorly understood. |
Date | 6 November 2000 (upload date) |
Source | 3C273: Chandra Observes Cosmic Traffic Pile-Up In Energetic Quasar Jet |
Author | NASA/CXC/SAO/H.Marshall et al. |
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Category InfoField | Quasars & Active Galaxies |
Color Code InfoField | Intensity |
Constellation InfoField | Virgo |
Coordinates (J2000) InfoField | RA 12h 29m 06.70s |
Distance Estimate InfoField | 3 billion light years |
Observation Time InfoField | 0 hours |
Scale InfoField | Image is 24 arcsec across. |
Instruments InfoField | HRC |
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Headline | A quasar over 3 billion light years from Earth. |
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Credit/Provider | NASA/CXC/SAO/H.Marshall et al. |
Source | Chandra X-ray Observatory |
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Author | Chandra X-ray Observatory Center |
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Date and time of data generation | 6 November 2000 |
Exif version | 2.21 |
Image width | 504 px |
Image height | 484 px |
Color space | Uncalibrated |
Width | 504 px |
Height | 484 px |
Pixel composition | RGB |
Number of components | 3 |
Horizontal resolution | 72 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 72 dpi |
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Date and time of digitizing | 10:45, 12 October 2007 |
Date metadata was last modified | 11:28, 22 December 2010 |
Keywords | 3C273 |
Contact information | cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu
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