Sixfold Avalanche: A Visual Model of Black Hole Jet Formation
What follows is not a hypothesis, but a visual mindmap — a conceptual rendering driven by pattern, aesthetic balance, and an intuitive sense of how forces might shape structure in extreme environments. It is a thought experiment assembled from a mixture of astrophysical ideas, atmospheric analogs, and personal visual logic. This model does not emerge from equations or formal simulation. Instead, it’s an intuitive “sketch” of how matter might behave near a spinning black hole, guided by an unconventional mind that favors pattern over proof.
The black hole at the center of this model is rotating — rapidly — and surrounded by a thick, dynamic accretion structure. But unlike classical models where matter spirals inward along the equatorial plane in a more-or-less symmetrical disk, this visualization operates differently. Radiation, magnetic field pressure, frame dragging conspire to block the equatorial path. Matter doesn’t fall in smoothly; instead, it dams up, piling against invisible pressure walls generated by the combined effects of frame dragging and intense radiation feedback (i.e. “Eddingtonization”)
This matter damming becomes a defining feature of this brainstorm model. At a certain critical accretion rate, radiation pressure builds to the point where it counteracts the gravitational pull inward. This condition is loosely inspired by the Eddington limit — the point at which radiation pushing outward balances the gravitational pull inward. In this visual model, this tipping point becomes an active structural influence. It’s not just a limit, but a reshaping force — an eddingtonization of the inner region, creating feedback loops that block equatorial inflow and force matter to seek alternate paths toward the black hole.
Those alternate paths, in this scenario, form at mid-latitudes — roughly 45 degrees north and south of the equator. Six discrete vortices form on the innermost accretion dams and arc up from the accretion disk and rain down towards the black hole. These arcs literally are pushed as far as spossible to northern and southern ‘lattitudes’ by frame dragging. In these funnels (which are twisted by coriolis forces) is wher the fusion emission near a black hole should/would happen in this model – i.e. NOT in the relatively less hot accretion disk itself, but elevated some distance above the accretion disk.
Here, material plunges inward through six organized channels per hemisphere. These aren’t smooth flows but plasma avalanches — high-energy, rotating torrents of ionized material funneled by magnetic fields and twisted by the rotating spacetime near the black hole. These carry a lot of electrical energy, so essentially they are lightning arcs. Each of these avalanches spins, warps, and tightens into a Coriolis vortex, where frame dragging and magnetic tension combine to create luminous, X-ray-bright funnels of rotating plasma.
There are six of these vortices per hemisphere — twelve in total — based not on mathematical derivation, but on a resonant aesthetic. Six feels right. In my semi-artistic visualization this model resonates with the hexagonal wave pattern seen in Saturn’s polar vortex, where atmospheric flows self-organize into a strange six-sided standing wave. That pattern is a reminder that fluid systems in rotation often fall into resonant geometries. The number six here reflects an intuition: that symmetry and chaos might balance at that harmonic. It is the most ‘playful’ part of my visualization.
The infalling plasma within each vortex doesn’t fall directly into the black hole. Some of it does — but not all. At the moment of collapse, when tension, charge, and density reach a threshold, each vortex undergoes a partial redirection of flow. Material and energy are explosively transferred not inward, but upward — into the polar chimneys. These are low-density, magnetically hollowed out corridors above the rotational poles, shaped by frame dragging and field line stretching.
Within these chimneys, electromagnetic forces accelerate the redirected plasma outward. What results is not a steady, continuous beam, but a modulated outflow — the beginnings of the relativistic jets that extend outward for potentially thousands of light-years. These jets are not monolithic. In this model, they are filamented and braided, composed of strands that trace back to the twelve underlying plasma vortices. Each avalanche feeds the jet in pulses, contributing to the twisting, luminous structure of the beam.
This model sees the jets not simply as outlets of surplus energy, but as dynamic conduits. They are braided rivers of plasma, fed not by equatorial accretion, but by mid-latitude avalanches — twelve individual “tentacles” of hyper-ionized plasma that channel energy into the polar escape routes. The structure is reminiscent of the filamented plasma seen in plasma globe lamps, where discrete arcs of ionization dance and feed into central poles. These arcs are not matter as we typically define it. They are ultra-energized, electrically active plasma channels, flickering and shifting as they transfer energy.
All of this is conceptual. It is not an empirical claim, nor a mathematical model. It is a speculative brainstorm rendered as a moving image — an attempt to articulate how structure might emerge from chaos in the most extreme environments in the universe. The mind that creates this model works far outside conventional scientific frameworks. My mind does not follow a chain of derivations; it feels its way through the structure (for good or for ill).
Likely the underlying intuition is naive. Perhaps it’s all bunk. But perhaps, too, there is value in seeing things differently — in imagining a black hole not just as a gravitational pit, but as a self-organizing plasma engine, patterned by tension, feedback, and resonance.
At its core, this vision is about structure — how forces resolve into flow, how symmetry appears in the heart of turbulence, and how extreme physics might echo the beauty of familiar patterns seen in storms, rings, and electrical discharge. Whether or not this model holds any truth, it may stir others to rethink, reimagine, and reach further into the complexity of cosmic motion.
For emphasis – this model assumes very expansive accretion disk mass, very virulent forces – whereas the actual black hole in this model would be speck in the middle of all this, likely barely visible. What we see in the movies – the black hole as a menacing eye of Sauron – is not what we would get in reality. Back holes are mere kilometers in size but exert torque in the range of solar masses. The accretion disk in such models would be hundreds to thousand of kilometers big, literally as big as terrestrial hurricane – or on similar scales. In that scale the stellar mass black hole would barely be bigger than a house.
I don’t even dare to expand this model to Quasar scale processes, lest I be accused to paying lip service to Azathoth himself. Maybe I already said too much… beyond here lie Dragons… {/i}.