Sentences with phrase «launch powerful jets»

The twisting magnetic fields will act as drive belts, tapping the enormous energy of the spinning disk to launch powerful jets of gas along the axis of the disk and back out into space.

As a result of this massive «meal» the black hole begins to launch a powerful jet that we can detect with radio telescopes.

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Black holes gobble up some matter and launch the rest away in powerful jets, scattering atoms within and between galaxies; pairs of neutron stars, also targets of Advanced LIGO, may ultimately trigger gamma - ray bursts, among the brightest and most energetic explosions known in the universe.

This breakthrough is an indication that even smaller sources are capable of launching powerful gamma ray jets — a potential paradigm shift in the field of astrophysics.