Black hole 'launchpad' glimpsed

A strange thing about black holes: they shine.

The current issue of Science Express features a paper by the Event Horizon telescope team?a collaboration that includes Avery Broderick, Associate Faculty at Perimeter Institute ? that may shed light on the origin of the bright jets given off by some black holes. In a world first, the team has been able to look at a distant black hole and find out where its jets are launched from: the "launchpad."

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