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A wide variety of astrophysical sources, from young stellar objects to white dwarfs, neutron stars, stellar-mass and supermassive black holes (SMBHs), produce jets. One of the most intriguing and challenging quests of modern astrophysics is to understand how jets are formed. Understanding jets from SMBHs in the context of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is a particularly crucial question because the jets are one of the main ways in which accreting SMBHs provide kinetic feedback on their surroundings and the growth of SMBHs themselves. High-resolution polarization imaging (millimeter-VLBI) is a unique technique to probe the central environments of SMBHs. This talk will be focused on high-resolution imaging of AGN to probe the jet launching region and magnetic field configuration close to the SMBH.
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