Speed and dense gas bend jets of matter streaming away from some galaxy centers - University of Wisconsin-Madison

Understanding the environment that shapes jet direction helps astronomers understand how galaxies evolve, but just how the matter is launched away from a black hole is an open question.

Paired jets of matter streaming away from supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies usually extend away in opposite directions along the black holes axis of spin as in the two bottom galaxy … [+4967 chars]

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