The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month for February 2025 is showing off the power of planet formation.

Researchers have discovered the largest black hole plasma jets ever in a galaxy almost 7 billion light years away from Earth.

For a while, the newly reformed corona — a cloud of highly energetic plasma and ... in an accretion disk. The cooler environment of the disk can emit optical and ultraviolet light, but rarely ...

By mid-2024, these observations revealed something extraordinary: a pair of plasma jets shooting out from the black hole at nearly one-third the speed of light. “The launch of a black hole jet ...

The features include the launch of a plasma jet moving at nearly one-third the speed of light and unusual ... within the black hole's accretion disk. In this scenario, each rise and fall of ...