Posted on 05/09/2024 12:11:39 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Bright elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87) is home to the supermassive black hole captured in 2017 by planet Earth's Event Horizon Telescope in the first ever image of a black hole. Giant of the Virgo galaxy cluster about 55 million light-years away, M87 is rendered in blue hues in this infrared image from the Spitzer Space telescope. Though M87 appears mostly featureless and cloud-like, the Spitzer image does record details of relativistic jets blasting from the galaxy's central region. Shown in the inset at top right, the jets themselves span thousands of light-years. The brighter jet seen on the right is approaching and close to our line of sight. Opposite, the shock created by the otherwise unseen receding jet lights up a fainter arc of material. Inset at bottom right, the historic black hole image is shown in context at the center of giant galaxy, between the relativistic jets. Completely unresolved in the Spitzer image, the supermassive black hole surrounded by infalling material is the source of enormous energy driving the relativistic jets from the center of active galaxy M87. The Event Horizon Telescope image of M87 has been enhanced to reveal a sharper view of the famous supermassive black hole.
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Wow.
If nothing van escape a block hole, what explains the jets getting out?
Lorena Bobbit
Science - What powers a black hole's mighty jets?
"The most popular explanation of how jets form is that the fast-spinning accretion disk, which contains charged particles, will produce a powerful magnetic field that is in contact with the black hole. If the black hole is spinning, it drags on the field, winding it into a tight cone at the rotational poles of the black hole. It is this twisted field that accelerates particles away from the black hole as jets and, in the process, extracts energy from the rotation of the black hole. Ghisellini says the group's finding that jets are so much more powerful than accretion disks shows that disks alone can't power the jets; the black hole's spin must also be involved.
Fabian says he still has a "slight reservation" about the assertion that the results prove the role of black hole spin. It's also possible, he says, that the magnetic field is sucking power out of the accretion disk, making it appear less bright."
those are ejected from the top and bottom only, and are a consequence of matter getting squeezed as it is rotating inward- it shoots both ways, some going into the black hole, and some going out.
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