Black Hole Bonanza: StarTalk Live! With Janna Levin and Jenny Greene
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The Irony of the Black Hole
For 30 years, we've been talking about how to accelerate jets and we just don't know. But I do think that the irony is that what the black hole is basically doing is it's acting kind of like an electromagnetic battery. So these jets are electromagnetically powered. And so black holes go from being the darkest phenomena conceivable as we discussed in the beginning to the largest sources of electromagnetic power in the universe That we can see at the edge of the universe.
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