Black Hole Gas and Magnetic Fields (IMAGE)
Caption
This image shows how gas and magnetic fields behave around a fast-spinning black hole that is capturing matter at an extremely high rate. The thick, donut-shaped disk of gas around the black hole gets denser toward its middle. In this image, brighter purple areas indicate that the gas is denser, while darker purple areas have less gas. Near the black hole, a powerful jet shoots outward, guided by spiral-shaped magnetic fields. The colorful lines in the image trace the jet's magnetic fields, and their colors reveal the field strength: red and orange show stronger magnetic fields, while yellow and green show weaker ones.
Credit
Zhang et al. (2025)
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