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I have seen many models showing the jet-streams shot out of black holes, and even some images. However, it is always said that a black hole has so strong of a gravity field, that not even light can escape it.

So how can matter accelerated to the speed of light, which is heavier than light escape the black hole in such "jets"? The acceleration of the jets must have an energy higher than the gravitational pull of the black hole, but how is that possible?

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Superunknown
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Because we have no black holes close enough to us to study in detail, physicists are not exactly sure how the jets are formed. Several mechanisms are possible and are described in the book Gravity's Engines by Caleb Scharf.

niels nielsen
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