News
Today in ApJL: EHT collaboration published new results
08/11/2023
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has published new results that describe for the first time how light from the edge of the supermassive black hole M87* spirals as it escapes the black hole’s intense gravity, a signature known as circular polarization. The way light’s electric field prefers to rotate clockwise or counterclockwise as it travels carries information about the magnetic field and types of high-energy particles around the black hole. The new paper, published today in Astrophysical Journal Letters, supports earlier findings from the EHT that the magnetic field near the M87* black hole is strong enough to occasionally stop the black hole from swallowing up nearby matter.
New in Nature Astronomy: Space interferometry reveals helical filaments within a supermassive black hole's jet
26/10/2023
The Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC) leads the observation at the highest angular resolution and sensitivity of the jet emerging from the core of the galaxy 3C 279 at nearly the speed of light. The image obtained reveals large helical filaments close to the central engine, the existence of which requires an alternative model to the one employed for four decades to explain the variability of these jets
Science features new paper with co-author Shivani Bhandari, researcher at ASTRON and JIVE
19/10/2023
This artist’s impression (not to scale) illustrates the path of the fast radio burst FRB 20220610A, from the distant galaxy where it originated all the way to Earth, in one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms. The source galaxy of FRB 20220610A, pinned down thanks to ESO’s Very Large Telescope, appears to be located within a small group of interacting galaxies.
The "20 MAGIC years" conference (4-7 Oct) and the enigmatic Fast Radio Bursts
09/10/2023
A peek inside the conference "20 MAGIC Years" in La Palma, Spain (4-7 Oct). JIVE support scientist, Benito Marcote, gave an insightful talk on Fast Radio Bursts and the successful synergy of the European VLBI Network (EVN) and the MAGIC telescopes in unveiling the regions where they occur.
JIVE Director’s Recent Meetings Review
03/10/2023
Nature features today “Precessing jet nozzle connecting to a spinning black hole in M87”. JIVE scientist, Junghwan Oh, co-authors
27/09/2023
Two-decade monitoring of M87 unveils a precessing jet connecting to a spinning black hole
JIVE at the Polish Astronomical Society Meeting (11-15 Sep). Highlights
20/09/2023
Photo by Patryk Zgubiński
European VLBI Network Call for Proposals is open
04/09/2023
Observing proposals are invited for the European VLBI Network (EVN). The deadline for proposal submission is 1 October 2023 at 16:00 UTC. See the Call for Proposals text here for full information about the call and how to submit proposals.
CASA VLBI workshop successful
19/06/2023
Where do you go when you want to learn the fine art of calibrating very long baseline interferometry observations? You join the CASA VLBI workshop! The third edition of this event took place from 5 to 9 June 2023, organised and hosted by JIVE.
The EVN/JIVE Newsletter #65 is published
15/05/2023
The May 2023 issue of the EVN/JIVE Newsletter is now available and includes relevant updates of the European VLBI Network. The Newsletter can be accessed here.