Side-by-side comparison of density “snapshots” produced in a 3-D simulation of jets beaming out from a black hole (at the base of images). Red shows higher density and blue shows lower density. The black directional lines show magnetic field streamlines. The perturbed magnetic lines reflect both the emergence of irregular magnetic fields in the jets and the large-scale deviations of the jets out of the image plane, both caused by the 3-D magnetic kink instability. Credit: Berkeley Lab, Purdue University
Theories and models show how instabilities develop in extreme energy releases from black holes, “These jets are notoriously hard to explain,” said Alexander “Sasha” Tchekhovskoy, a former NASA Edbolt Einsteinein fellow...
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