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Black hole jets. (Insight).(Brief Article)

Computer Graphics World

| April 01, 2002 | LoPiccolo, Phil | COPYRIGHT 2002 PennWell Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

No one has ever seen what a black hole looks like or how it sucks in all forms of space matter from hundreds of light years away. But scientists believe that images from the Hubble Telescope showing jets mysteriously shooting from the center of massive disks in deep space may provide a clue. At the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, John F. Hawley and Steven A. Balbus of the University of Virginia and James M. Stone of the University of Maryland developed a computer simulation of the behaviour of these ...

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