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A black hole’s jets light up in less than a second

Plasma jets start to shine just after less-fortunate material swirls towards its doom.
Glowing plasma jets shoot away from a black hole in this artist’s rendering.

Glowing plasma jets shoot away from a black hole in this artist’s rendering. ESO/WFI (visible); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A. Weiss et al. (microwave); NASA/CXC/CfA/R. Kraft et al. (X-ray)

Plasma jets shot from a black hole take about 0.1 seconds to start glowing.

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Nature 551, 145 (2017)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-017-05527-2

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