Secrets of a jet: what we learned from a supermassive black hole

The nearby, giant radio galaxy M87 hosts a supermassive black hole and is well-known for its bright jet dominating the spectrum over ten orders of magnitude in frequency. Due to its proximity, jet prominence, and the large black hole mass, M87 is the best laboratory for investigating the formation, acceleration, and collimation of relativistic jets. 

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