How plasma swirling around black holes can produce heat and light Date: December 9, 2021 Source: DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Summary: Researchers have uncovered a process in the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a jet of flaming plasma streaming from a supermassive black hole that seems to be causing nearby stars to explode. The trail is 3,000-light-year-long, and ...

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 ...

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.