Jets ejected from a rapidly growing supermassive black hole (IMAGE)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Jets ejected from a rapidly growing supermassive black hole

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Jets ejected from a rapidly growing supermassive black hole with surrounding outflows. The polarization plane of a radio wave emitted from the vicinity of a black hole rotates as it passes through the surrounding magnetized gas.

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