"This result shows that the Event Horizon Telescope is not only useful for producing spectacular images, but can also be used to understand the physics that govern black hole jets."
"This is a structure we've never seen before, so it could be a new class of dark object."
"Nothing in my professional training as an X-ray astronomer had prepared me for something like this."
"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a star."
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"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion."
"The forces that are needed to dislodge such a massive black hole from its home are enormous."
"This is a real gift for physicists as we confirm predictions made more than a century ago."
"This is certainly an outburst unlike any other we've seen in the past 50 years."
