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English: Simulated black hole jets spin and sweep past in this animation. The jets, which contain particles moving near the speed of light, appear in orange, pink, and purple, while the galaxy's environment – stars and gas clouds – show as green and yellow. As weak jets move through this environment, they can be deflected, split apart, or even suppressed. Because astronomers have a hard time observing weak jets directly, these simulations connect them to more easily detected galactic features.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/R. Tanner and K. WeaverDescriptive text:Brightly colored shapes resembling ragged ice cream cones attached by the small end emerge from a black background, spinning and moving toward the viewer in a loop. The orange, pink, and purple cones rise out of mottled green and yellow cylinders.