Black holes absorb everything and emit nothing, yet relativistic jets of plasma are observed to emanate from systems hosting accreting black holes. We now know exactly how far from the black hole these processes take place.
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Kylafis, N. A fraction of a light second away. Nat Astron 1, 827–828 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0320-0
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