Kyle Parfrey Tag | The Daily Californian

Thursday, January 31, 2019

Berkeley Lab study provides insight on escaping from black holes

A black half circle covers the far left side of the picture. In extreme contrast, left of the circle, heavily saturated orange, pink, and purple colors diffuse towards the right of the image. At the far right of the image, the colors seem to merge condense to form one single tube of color in a black vacuum, and then expand once again in all directions.

New simulations led by researchers working at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or Berkeley Lab, provide insight on how black holes launch plasma jets — beams of ionized gas — into space.
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Berkeley Lab study provides insight on escaping from black holes