What Is a Blazar? It’s Like Staring Down the Barrel of a Black Hole

Re:What Is a Blazar? It’s Like Staring Down the Barrel of a ... by mirimir on Saturday July 14, 2018 @12:30AM (#17528830)

Thanks. I did skim the Wikipedia articles, but wasn't left with a clear understanding.

But OK, I get that they're all galaxies with AGNs aka massive black holes. And that blazars are the ones with a jet pointed right at us.

But now I'm curious. When a jet is pointed right at us, we see visible, x-ray and gamma radiation, and relativistic particles. But is longer wavelength radiation also emitted mainly on the jet axis?

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Re:What Is a Blazar? It’s Like Staring Down the Barrel of a ... by teh_klev on Saturday July 14, 2018 @01:00AM (#17528907)

I'd be a complete fraud if I said I could answer that :)

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Re:What Is a Blazar? It’s Like Staring Down the Barrel of a ... by mirimir on Saturday July 14, 2018 @01:50AM (#17529029)

Yeah, me too :)

But this is interesting: https://www.bu.edu/blazars/VLBAproject.html

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