Hundreds of quasars, radio galaxies and pulsars will be imaged with this mega-telescope over the satellite's lifetime. These pictures will have the sharpest view of the Universe ever achieved at these wavelengths, up to 100 times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope. The two way communications between the satellite and tracking stations has been one of the technological triumphs of the mission. The image on the left is the ground-only image of the radio source. The bright white component in the center of the image is due to material falling onto a giant black hole at the center of the object.
Magnetic fields surrounding the black hole accellerate the particles into a narrow jet.
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