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Black Hole Plasma Jets and 'Magnetism' Friday, April 25, 2008 - Iddo Genuth Home >> Headlines >> Physics   
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Black holes don't just consume everything nearby - occasionally they fire out huge corkscrews of gas. Now the first look down the barrel of one of these jets has uncovered its origins. Theories predict that tightly coiled magnetic fields close to particularly energetic supermassive black holes called blazars might expel jets of plasma into space. (source: space.newscientist.com)
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