{"id":200755,"date":"2024-12-04T09:24:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T15:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/large-radio-jet-discovered-in-quasar-j16013102"},"modified":"2024-12-04T09:24:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T15:24:16","slug":"large-radio-jet-discovered-in-quasar-j16013102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/large-radio-jet-discovered-in-quasar-j16013102","title":{"rendered":"Large radio jet discovered in quasar J1601+3102"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/large-radio-jet-discovered-in-quasar-j160131023.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of astronomers has observed an extremely radio-loud quasar known as J1601+3102. As a result, they found that the quasar hosts a large extended radio jet. The discovery is <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2411.16838\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> in a research paper published Nov. 25 on the <i>arXiv<\/i> preprint server.<\/p>\n<p>Quasars, or quasi-stellar objects (QSOs), are <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/active+galactic+nuclei\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">active galactic nuclei<\/a> (AGN) of very high luminosity powered by <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/supermassive+black+holes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">supermassive black holes<\/a> (SMBHs), emitting <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electromagnetic+radiation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electromagnetic radiation<\/a> observable in radio, infrared, visible, ultraviolet and X-ray wavelengths. They are among the brightest and most distant objects in the known universe, and serve as fundamental tools for numerous studies in astrophysics as well as cosmology.<\/p>\n<p>J1601+3102 is an extremely radio-loud quasar at a redshift of 4.9, discovered in 2022. It has a radio flux at a level of 69 mJy, bolometric luminosity of about 26 quattuordecillion erg\/s and a steep spectral index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of astronomers has observed an extremely radio-loud quasar known as J1601+3102. As a result, they found that the quasar hosts a large extended radio jet. The discovery is reported in a research paper published Nov. 25 on the arXiv preprint server. Quasars, or quasi-stellar objects (QSOs), are active galactic nuclei (AGN) of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}