The ULX's Radio-Emitting Jet (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

The ULX's Radio-Emitting Jet

Caption

The ULX's radio-emitting jet (center) is unresolved in this image constructed from Very Long Baseline Array data. Each side of the image is 20 milliarcseconds across, or about the width of a human hair seen from a distance of half a mile.

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NRAO/M. Middleton et al.

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