{"id":116951,"date":"2020-12-10T22:27:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T06:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/black-hole-jets-could-be-fueled-by-strange-negative-energy-astronomers-find"},"modified":"2020-12-10T22:27:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T06:27:01","slug":"black-hole-jets-could-be-fueled-by-strange-negative-energy-astronomers-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/black-hole-jets-could-be-fueled-by-strange-negative-energy-astronomers-find","title":{"rendered":"Black Hole Jets Could Be Fueled by Strange \u2018Negative Energy\u2019, Astronomers Find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/black-hole-jets-could-be-fueled-by-strange-negative-energy-astronomers-find.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"black hole\">black hole<\/a> is actively feeding, something strange can be observed: enormously powerful jets of plasma shoot from its poles, at velocities approaching light speed.<\/p>\n<p>Given the intense gravitational interactions at play, exactly how those jets form is a mystery. But now, using computer simulations, a team of physicists has hit upon an answer \u2014 particles seeming to have \u201cnegative energy\u201d extract energy from the black hole and redirect it to the jets.<\/p>\n<p>And this theory has, for the first time, united two different and <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0804.1912\">seemingly irreconcilable<\/a> theories about how energy can be extracted from a black hole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a black hole is actively feeding, something strange can be observed: enormously powerful jets of plasma shoot from its poles, at velocities approaching light speed. Given the intense gravitational interactions at play, exactly how those jets form is a mystery. But now, using computer simulations, a team of physicists has hit upon an answer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}