Artist's Illustration of Galaxy with Jets from a Supermassive Black Hole (IMAGE)

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Artist's Illustration of Galaxy with Jets from a Supermassive Black Hole

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This artist's impression illustrates how high-speed jets from supermassive black holes would look. These outflows of plasma are the result of the extraction of energy from a supermassive black hole's rotation as it consumes the disc of swirling material that surrounds it. These jets have very strong emissions at radio wavelengths.

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ESA/Hubble, L. Calçada (ESO)

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