How do black holes 'leak' energy? Scientists have a new spin on the answer

A team of scientists has discovered how the disks of gas and dust that swirl around black holes can become the powerful engines of galactic power plants.

The faster these voids spin, the more efficient this energy extraction seems to be.

Researchers have theorized that energy is primarily drawn from the spins of black holes due to the objects' magnetic fields, and funneled into powerful high-energy particle jets that erupt from objects' poles.