Supermassive black holes launch the most powerful cosmic jets

14 articles · Updated · Big Think · May 4

The report says accretion disks of hot, ionised matter around black holes generate the electric and magnetic fields needed to accelerate the jets.
It cites the Milky Way's Sagittarius A*, occasional flares, Fermi bubbles and radio filaments as evidence that energy and matter have recently streamed outward.
Similar collimated jets also appear around quasars, young stellar systems and Herbig-Haro objects, while multiwavelength observations from X-rays to radio track their formation and transport.

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