Visualisation of the new DFG research group’s holistic approach: observations (right) and theoretical modelling (left) of jets are combined on the smallest and largest scales. (Image: Collage von Matthias Kadler (JMU); basierend auf Einzelbildern von C. Fromm (JMU), A. Baczko (MPIfR), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
Visualisation of the new DFG research group's holistic approach: observations ( right ) and theoretical modelling ( left ) of jets are combined on the smallest and largest scales. (Image: Collage von Matthias Kadler (JMU); basierend auf Einzelbildern von C. Fromm (JMU), A. Baczko (MPIfR), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF) 07/14/2021 The super-energetic jets that shoot out of black holes are in the focus of a new DFG research group. The researchers are being funded with 3.6 million euros. Black holes are found at the centre of almost all galaxies that have been studied so far. They have an unimaginably large mass and therefore attract matter, gas and even light. Only recently, astronomical images showing the accumulation of matter onto a supermassive black hole have caused public excitement. Such black holes can release immense energy, originally stored in their rotation or the potential energy of collected matter, into the environment.
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