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An artist's concept shows the SS433 system. The black hole is at left, surrounded by an accretion disk. Gas in the disk gets hotter as it spirals closer to the black hole. New gas flows into the disk from the supergiant companion star at right. Some of the gas in the disk is shot back into space at about one-quarter of the speed of light, forming two long jets that extend above and below the black hole. [Kimberly Kowal]

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