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Black Hole Jets Contain Heavy Metal Atoms
Forbes
“Until now it wasn't clear whether the positive charge came from positrons, the antimatter 'opposite' of electrons, or positively charged atoms.
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Some scientists seem to think that black holes contain heavy metals. Like all the other black holes out there in the universe, they seem to emit a light after absorbing a very huge star. However, in those lights, scientists think that there are highly charged particles. Researchers thought that the jets of light seemed to be completely made of negatively charged atoms, but now they’re thinking that there are positively charged atoms in some places, too. Scientists came up with the hypothesis that the jets of light being scattered were nearly two-thirds the speed of light. Scientists are now trying to find out if this happens to all the other black holes too.