Jet from Supermassive Black Hole Seen Blasting Neighboring Galaxy.
You can't see the massive black hole of course, only the blue jet emanating from it.
Black holes ... set loose tremendous bursts of energy as matter swirls around the disk of material that circles the black hole but does not make it in.
That energy, often in the form of highly charged gamma rays and X-rays, shoots out in powerful jets that can be millions of light-years long and 1,000 light-years wide.
Scientists are just beginning to understand these jets, which not only transform matter in their path but also help produce "stellar nurseries," where new stars are formed.
What seems violent may be a form of galactic conception.