The water is not just shooting through the hole, but it's spinning near the speed of light. So there's all this mass that's been attracted. And it's like whipping around kind of like a table, right? The image in particular didn't see too much about the jet other than we can't see it in our image because at the time we didn't have enough telescopes to see the jet. But our polarization image which came out in 2021 showed more spiral structure on top of that trace magnetic field around the black hole.

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