Astrophysics with Crider

In class the other day, I talked about our how we had relatively little data about how jets are produced by black holes. The following news release suggest that this has changed recently. Radio astronomers are now able to detect a corkscrew magnetic field that funnels particles out of the accretion disk before they enter a black hole.

http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2008/bllac/