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How to Escape a Black Hole: Simulations provide new clues about powerful Plasma jets

This visualization of a general-relativistic collisionless plasma simulation shows the density of positrons near the event horizon of a rotating black hole. Plasma instabilities produce island-like structures in the region of intense electric current.
Credit: Kyle Parfrey et al./Berkeley Lab

Interplay of twisting magnetic field, ‘negative-energy’ particles. How do black holes purge energy locked up in their rotation, jetting near-light-speed plasmas into space to opposite sides in one of the most powerful displays in the universe? These jets can extend outward for millions of light years.

New simulations led by researchers working at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have combined decades-old theories to provide new insight ...

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