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The Secret of the Energy from the Rotating Black Hole

Researchers noticed a suddenly illuminated plasma jet core, more than a thousand times the shadow of the black hole found in the quasar 3C279.

In the quasar 3C279, also a black hole -  At more than a thousand times the shadow of the black hole, the core of a plasma jet suddenly lit up. How the energy got there is currently unknown. The said quasar was observed by astrophysicist Amit Shukla with NASA’s space telescope Fermi-LAT.