Strange way black holes lose energy could help solve cosmic puzzle

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Space

The rotation of achromatic holes whitethorn beryllium harnessed by their magnetic fields, which merchandise hundreds of millions of times the vigor of the prima and could powerfulness their tremendous jets

By Leah Crane

A polarised presumption of the achromatic spread M87* with lines that people the predisposition of polarisation related to the magnetic fields

EHT Collaboration/ESO

Black holes crossed the beingness are losing tremendous amounts of energy, and it could beryllium owed to magnetic fields slowing their spin. Understanding this process could assistance lick the long-standing enigma of however achromatic spread jets are powered.

A caller survey of the supermassive achromatic spread M87* has shown that the vigor adjacent its borderline is flowing outward, not falling in. Scientists person agelong theorised that the magnetic fields…

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