The discovery, which was accomplished by comparing data from NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, has enabled the researchers to uncover dozens of
new blazar candidates.
The infrared / gamma - ray connection led the authors to search for
new blazar candidates among WISE infrared sources located within the positional uncertainties of Fermi's unidentified gamma - ray objects.
Not exact matches
Now, Readhead and his colleagues argue that they're seeing the
blazar's black hole emit tiny burps of plasma, magnified hundreds of times by a
new kind of gravitational lens.
The two different classes of jet - spewing active galaxies called
blazars may, in fact, be a single hybrid type that evolves over time, according to
new research.