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So what creates these jets and gas cloud? Why, a massive black hole, that's what. As matter falls into the black hole, it goes into fast orbit, creating an accretion disk: the stuff that creates the absorption cloud. Then, as matter finally falls through the event horizon into the black hole per se, mighty x-ray jets fire out from the poles.
Viola! Astronomical drama.
Best,
Chris
