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PingouinMalin t1_ixm0opk wrote

Reply to comment by smurficus103 in For the first time, astronomers have observed how certain supermassive black holes launch jets (outflows of ionised matter) of high-energy particles into space by The_R3venant

How would that work, considering even light cannot escape that pull and it is the fastest "thing" possible ?

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smurficus103 t1_ixm1un7 wrote

I guess imagine the black hole as something larger than a star, spinning fast, with violent collisions from stars it eats, generating a huge magnetic field, like a dynamo, and burping out a bit of xrays? It's kinda fun, but, yeah, who knows.

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PingouinMalin t1_ixm2yt9 wrote

To be fair, everything about the universe, it's scale and the kind of things like black holes fascinate me but also break my understanding of things.

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