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The recipe for powerful quasar jets – Phys.org
Some supermassive black holes launch powerful beams of material, or jets, while others do not. Astronomers may now have identified why.
Some supermassive black holes launch powerful beams of material, or jets, while others do not. Astronomers may now have identified why.
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton, Germany’s ROentgen SATellite (ROSAT), the NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and other telescopes, researchers have studied more than 700 quasarsrapidly growing supermassive black holesto isolate the factors that determine why these black holes launch jets.
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