This illustration shows a black hole pulling material away from a closely orbiting companion star. Some of the hot gas in the disk will cross the “event horizon” (the point of no return) and fall into the black hole, some of it is instead blasted away from the black hole in a pair of short beams of material, or jets. These jets are pointed in opposite directions, launched from outside the event horizon along magnetic field lines. (NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)
Home This illustration shows a black hole pulling material away from a closely orbiting companion star. Some of the hot gas in the disk will cross the “event horizon” (the point of no return) and fall into the black hole, some of it is instead blasted away from the black hole in a pair of short beams of material, or jets. These jets are pointed in opposite directions, launched from outside the event horizon along magnetic field lines. (NASA/CXC/M.Weiss) This illustration shows a black hole pulling material away from a closely orbiting companion star. Some of the hot gas in the disk will cross the "event horizon" (the point of no return) and fall into the black hole, some of it is instead blasted away from the black hole in a pair of short beams of material, or jets. These jets are pointed in opposite directions, launched from outside the event horizon along magnetic field lines. (NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)