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Focusing Jets by Magnetic Fields

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Focusing Jets by Magnetic Fields
The hot, ionized accretion disk (red-yellow) around the black hole rotates and
creates a magnetic field that is twisted into spring-shaped spirals above and
below the disk. Some of the accretion disk’s gas falling toward the black hole
is overheated and squirted at high speeds into the two tubes created by the
magnetic fields. The fields keep the gas traveling directly outward from
above and below the disk, thus creating the two jets.
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