Some objects in the Milky Way Galaxy are observed to be emitting two oppositely directed jets of material.These gas jets are believed to be:
A) energetic, charged particles ejected along the magnetic axes of a rotating neutron star.
B) material squirted out along the rotation axis of an accretion disk around a neutron star in a binary star system.
C) material transferred onto the surface of a white dwarf in a binary star system, then subsequently blasted into space by runaway thermonuclear fusion reactions.
D) material expelled from the far side of the companion star in a binary system, repelled by magnetic interaction with the pulsar.
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