"Christopher Reynolds" was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and ancestor of R. J. Reynolds. Other notable descendants include Mark Twain and "Lonesome" Charley Reynolds.

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Though we don't definitely know the mechanism by which these jets are produced, our findings are supportive of the idea that magnetic field lines interact in a way that causes them to work like the elastic bands of a giant sling shot throwing incoming material back out from the black hole.

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They attracted our attention because they were too boring.

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There had to be something else happening that would explain this discrepancy. Rather than trying to compete, I decided join up.

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We see enough energy coming out of these black holes to completely stifle star formation. This is an exciting finding because it demonstrates a direct interaction between black holes and galaxy formation, which is a hot topic in astrophysics right now.

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There are other families of particles out there that can form massive compact objects.

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They never seem to lose their efficiency, they just put out the energy in different ways in different phases.

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That's a mystery, how these black holes selectively put that much energy into the jets without producing much light.

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If a car was as fuel-efficient as these black holes, it could theoretically travel over a billion miles on a gallon of gas.

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