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(above): High-resolution radio-wavelength image of the source of the jet in galaxy M87 near a presumed black hole. The inset pictures show a large scale, while the main picture shows the new high-resolution image of the jet much closer to the black hole. (Courtesy, NRAO)
(below): Artist's rendering of what might be happening near a black hole. A jet, shaped by strong, twisting field lines, blasts upwards from the accretion disk around the black hole. (Courtesy, Space Telescope Science Institute.)
reported by: Junor et al., in Nature, 28 October 1999