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Scientists make lab-grown black hole jets

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Experiment using beams of protons to probe how plasma and magnetic fields interact may have just solved the mystery of how quasars and supermassive black holes unleash their relativistic jets.

Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in New Jersey created a high-energy density plasma by firing a pulsed, 20 -joule laser beam at a plastic target.

Then, they used powerful lasers to instigate nuclear fusion in a fuel capsule filled with deuterium and helium-3.