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As the newly born black hole began to feed, it pulled material into a swirling disk and began shooting matter in both directions from the center of that disk — forming the jet that Hubble observed.
To determine the speed of the jet, researchers specifically looked at the motion of a"blob" of debris from the explosion that the jet pushed out into the universe.
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