The garbage disposal effect

http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/html/heic0211d.html
NASA/European Space Agency, and Felix Mirabel (French Atomic Energy Commission, and the Institute for Astronomy and Space Physics/Conicet of Argentina)

Astronomy 10 learning goal Q10.3

Short movie clip dramatizing the behavior of the black hole and companion star that comprise "microquasar" GRO J1655-40.   The "garbage disposal effect" is where material will fly up and out of the drain of a garbage disposal while operating, and is a crude analog of the bipolar jets emitted by the black hole.