3C 279

<h2 id="observations">Observations</h2>
<ul><li>The apparent <a href="/facts/Superluminal/tpFg6JNd">superluminal motion</a> was detected during observations first made in 1973 in a jet of material departing from the quasar, though it should be understood that this effect is an optical illusion caused by naive estimations of the speed, and no truly superluminal motion is occurring.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li>
<li>16 June 2015, the 3C 279 had a large gamma-ray outburst, believed to be caused by the injection of high-speed electrons in the central, high-density region.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li>
<li>Further observations with the Event Horizon Telescope during April 2017 provided a high level of detail to the radio jet, with a resolution as small as 20 <a href="/facts/Micro-arcseconds/tybs6YGC">micro-arcseconds</a>. They indicated a bent or rotating jet shaped by shock waves.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></li></ul>
<h2 id="gallery">Gallery</h2>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li> Media related to 3C 279 at Wikimedia Commons</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Resonant absorption troughs in the gamma-ray spectra  of  QSO See section 4.2 <a href="http://www.aanda.org/index.php?option=article&access=standard&Itemid=129&url=/articles/aa/full/2005/24/aa1815-04/aa1815-04.html" target="_blank">http://www.aanda.org/index.php?option=article&access=standard&Itemid=129&url=/articles/aa/full/2005/24/aa1815-04/aa1815-04.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>J. R. Webb; M. T. Carini; S. Clements; S. Fajardo; P. P. Gombola; R. J. Leacock; et al. (1990). "The 1987-1990 optical outburst of the OVV quasar 3C 279". Astronomical Journal. 100: 1452–1456. Bibcode:1990AJ....100.1452W. doi:10.1086/115609. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>J. R. Webb; M. T. Carini; S. Clements; S. Fajardo; P. P. Gombola; R. J. Leacock; et al. (1990). "The 1987-1990 optical outburst of the OVV quasar 3C 279". Astronomical Journal. 100: 1452–1456. Bibcode:1990AJ....100.1452W. doi:10.1086/115609. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>APOD: December 26, 1998 - Gamma Ray Quasar <a href="https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap981226.html" target="_blank">https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap981226.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (10 April 2019). "First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. IV. Imaging the Central Supermassive Black Hole". The Astrophysical Journal. 875 (1): 22. arXiv:1906.11243. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab1141. hdl:10150/633754. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3847%2F2041-8213%2Fab1141" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.3847%2F2041-8213%2Fab1141</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>Apparent superluminal motion <a href="http://www.spacetimetravel.org/bewegung/bewegung4.html" target="_blank">http://www.spacetimetravel.org/bewegung/bewegung4.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>Singh, K. K.; Meintjes, P. J.; Ramamonjisoa, F. A. (2020). "Understanding the giant gamma-ray outburst on June 16, 2015 from the blazar 3C 279". Astrophysics and Space Science. 365 (2): 33. arXiv:2002.04965. Bibcode:2020Ap&SS.365...33S. doi:10.1007/s10509-020-3746-2. S2CID 254265537. <a href="/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:8"><p>Kim, Jae-Young; et al. (EHT) (April 7, 2020). "Event Horizon Telescope imaging of the archetypal blazar 3C 279 at an extreme 20 microarcsecond resolution" (PDF). Astronomy & Astrophysics. 640: A69. Bibcode:2020A&A...640A..69K. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202037493. Retrieved April 8, 2020. <a href="https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa37493-20.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa37493-20.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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