Wednesday, August 16, 2017

How do jets from supermassive black holes lose energy?

Black holes are objects in space whose gravitational pull is so strong that even light is unable to escape, but despite that, there is some amount of radiation that actually goes outward from black holes. Highly energetic jets traveling at near the speed of light, called active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets, take energy from that radiation and are among the most extreme outbursts that have been observed in the universe.

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