In the future, Ebrahimi plans to explore how the MRI affects accretion disk turbulence, disturbances in the plasma that can affect how heat, light, and motion propagate throughout the disk.

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small. ... Two different types of flares light up the galactic center.

Researchers may now understand how the supermassive black hole at the heart of M87 launches a jet of plasma spreading across thousands of light-years.

Flares of light have been observed in a disk orbiting the black hole Sagittarius A*, according to a team of astrophysicists studying the black hole who published their findings Tuesday in The ...

We cannot see this fearsome object directly—only its shadow, a lightless bubble nestled within an “accretion disk” of infalling incandescent plasma. Spotting this light-ringed dark orb from ...

Clouds in the Milky Way’s plasma bubbles came from the starry disk — and far beyond. The finding suggests that new star-making material may be trapped where it can’t make stars ...

An accretion disk is a ring of superheated plasma, or ionized gas, that spins around a black hole's event horizon, the boundary beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape.

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long flares as well as short flashes every day.

Some accretion disk and plasma jet emissions in AGNs can be so bright that they outshine the combined light of every star in their home galaxy. An animation showing scientists' understanding of a ...

In an announcement from China’s Institute of Geology and Geophysics, the country’s low latitude long range ionospheric radar ...

In the future, Ebrahimi plans to explore how the MRI affects accretion disk turbulence, disturbances in the plasma that can affect how heat, light, and motion propagate throughout the disk.

The resulting reconnection within the accretion disks releases the observed heat and light. “These accretion disk reconnection processes are something new in the plasma physics world,” said ...