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What were the blue jets coming out of the black hole in that picture?

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What were the blue jets coming out of the black hole in that picture?

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They represent radiation jets, which can be produced at the magnetic poles of rapidly spinning objects with intense magnetic fields. Jets are thought to be generated by both neutron stars and black holes (for the black hole case, the radiation is generated outside the event horizon).