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C.S. Reynolds (Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of Maryland), J. Wilms (IAAT, Tuebingen, Germany), M.C. Begelman (JILA, Univ. of Colorado), S. Molendi (Istituto di Fisica Cosmica, CNR, Milano, Italy), J. Reeves (University of Leiceter, UK.), R. Staubert, E. Kendziorra (IAAT, Tuebingen, Germany)
We present XMM-Newton European Photon Imaging Camera (EPIC) observations of the bright Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG-6-30-15, focusing on the broad Fe K\alpha line at ~6 keV and the associated reflection continuum, which is believed to originate from the inner accretion disk. We find these reflection features to be extremely broad and red-shifted, indicating its origin from the very most central regions of the accretion disk. It seems likely that we have caught this source in the ``deep minimum'' state first observed by Iwasawa et al. (1996). The implied central concentration of X-ray illumination is difficult to understand in any pure accretion disk model. We suggest that we are witnessing the extraction and dissipation of rotational energy from a spinning black hole by magnetic fields connecting the black hole to the disk.