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Nustar Probes Black Hole Jet Mystery


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Black hole plasma

This artist's concept shows a black hole with an accretion diska flat structure of material orbiting the black holeand a jet of hot gas, called plasma.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Black holes are famous for being ravenous eaters, but they do not eat everything that falls toward them.

From Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
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