The plasma is composed of high-energy charged particles. As plasma spirals around the black hole, its accelerating particles emit radio waves.

Physicists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have succeeded in creating collimated jets that resemble those that erupt from baby stars and feeding black holes.

The black hole at the center of elliptical galaxy M87 is shooting out a light-years-long jet of plasma. This jet stretches some 5,000 light-years at optical wavelengths (pictured here) and up to ...

Astronomers have spotted two giant plasma jets streaming from a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. At a mind-bending 23 million light-years long, they are the longest plasma jets on ...

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 ...

Supermassive black holes have been known to belch gigantic beams of plasma into space – and now scientists have managed to recreate these fireballs in a lab at CERN.. Although black holes are ...

The 2000 science fiction film Pitch Black (now streaming on Peacock!) launched The Chronicles of Riddick franchise and introduced the world to Richard B. Riddick, as played by Vin Diesel. In the ...

Scientists have found a way to produce "plasma fireballs" just like those made by black holes—but here on Earth. The immensely powerful beam of plasma produced by the scientists—using the ...

The unique black hole is located in the galaxy RAD12, and its plasma stream is bombarding the neighboring galaxy RAD12-B. Located around 1 billion light-years from Earth, the two galaxies are in ...

A 570-light-year-long twisted jet of plasma is getting blasted from a distant blazar at near the speed of light. Like a monstrous cosmic spider, a distant supermassive black hole is spinning a jet ...