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A model of radio sources is proposed in which the magnetised accretion disk of a massive black hole acts as an electric dynamo producing two oppositely-directed beams of ultra-relativistic particles.
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Lovelace, R. Dynamo model of double radio sources. Nature 262, 649–652 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/262649a0
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