An article published in the journal “Nature Astronomy” reports the results of a study on the formation of jets of materials by black holes, identifying a rule that appears to be independent of their mass. Adelle Goodwin of the Curtin University’s International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Australia, and Andrew Mummery of Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, USA, studied a series of tidal disruption events in which black holes destroyed a star. By analyzing the collected data, the researchers concluded that all black holes emit powerful jets of material at the same stage of their accretion cycle, a stage linked solely to the rate at which the black hole feeds, rather than its mass.