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An international team of over 280 scientists used the upgraded Event Horizon Telescope — expanded from 8 to 11 stations for its 2021 campaign — to detect a compact emission feature just 0.09 light-years from the supermassive black hole M87*, marking the probable base of its 3,000-light-year relativistic jet. The finding, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics in January 2026, bridges the long-standing observational gap between the black hole's famous ring and its enormous outflow, though the team characterizes the result as a "first hint" requiring confirmation from next-generation telescope arrays.