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Re: M87
10/29/09 09:01 PM
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This jet is one of the great mysteries - no one has a clue what could cause that.
-drl
Well, it's very well known that it's a supermassive black hole a couple billion times the sun's mass that causes it. I believe the leading theory for how the jets become so well collimated is that they are focused with a very powerful magnetic field.
-------------------- John T.
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