The detection of a discrete knot of particle emission from the active galaxy M81* reveals that black hole accretion is self-similar with regard to mass, producing the same knotty jets irrespective of black hole mass and accretion rate.
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Gómez, J. More similar than knot. Nature Phys 12, 729–730 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3748
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