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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c336586a-cdcc-4699-94fa-660056695a29/A539E7DD-577A-481B-8D19-D70EBDAB38C5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/04/24/2226300.htm?site=science&topic=latest" href="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/04/24/2226300.htm?site=science&topic=latest" style="font-size: 11px;">www.abc.net.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/04/24/2226300.htm?site=science&topic=latest"> Julie Steenhuysen</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/04/24/2226300.htm?site=science&topic=latest"><P class="first">Scientists say they have captured a supermassive black hole just as it was belching out a jet of supercharged particles, offering a first look at how these cosmic jets form.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/04/24/2226300.htm?site=science&topic=latest"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.abc.net.au/img/A5CBE57F-A2F5-42D4-979E-89A901AAC7E2" alt="supermassive black hole" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/04/24/2226300.htm?site=science&topic=latest">Twisted magnetic fields propel and shape this jet of particles from a supermassive black hole</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/04/24/2226300.htm?site=science&topic=latest"><P>Supermassive black holes form the core of many galaxies and astronomers have long believed they are responsible for ejecting jets of particles at nearly the speed of light.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; 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background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/04/24/2226300.htm?site=science&topic=latest">Marscher's team aimed the US <A target="_blank" href="http://www.nrao.edu/">National Radio Astronomy Observatory</A>'s <A target="_blank" href="http://www.vlba.nrao.edu/">Very Long Baseline Array</A>, a system of 10 radio telescopes, at the galaxy BL Lacertae</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/04/24/2226300.htm?site=science&topic=latest">What they saw was a close up of this charged material winding in corkscrew fashion out of the supermassive black hole, behaving just as astronomers have predicted</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; 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