![]() The new image published today shows precisely this for the first time: how the base of a jet connects with the matter swirling around a supermassive black hole. To study this directly we need to observe the origin of the jet as close as possible to the black hole." "We know that jets are ejected from the region surrounding black holes," says Ru-Sen Lu from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory in China, "but we still do not fully understand how this actually happens. ![]() Understanding how black holes create such enormous jets has been a long standing problem in astronomy. While black holes are known for engulfing matter in their immediate vicinity, they can also launch powerful jets of matter that extend beyond the galaxies that they live in. ![]() Most galaxies harbour a supermassive black hole at their centre. ![]()
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