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24 April 2008
Magnetic Fields Shape the Jets Pouring Out of Supermassive Black Holes

The cores of galaxies contain supermassive black holes, containing hundreds of millions of times the mass of Sun. As matter falls in, it chokes up, forming a super hot accretion disk around the black hole. From this extreme environment, the black hole-powered region spews out powerful jets of particles moving at the speed of light. [...]

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