This new jet engine uses plasma. Plasma is the fourth state of matter, after solid liquid, and gas. It already exists on the surface of the sun and in lightning, but humans can also create it.

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

The features include the launch of a plasma jet moving at nearly one-third the speed of light and unusual, rapid X-ray fluctuations likely arising from near the very edge of the black hole.

Imaging also clearly shows a pair of oppositely directed plasma jets forming near the black hole and expanding outward over the course of 2023 -- 2024. The observation of jet formation in real ...

Plasma jets erupting from a supermassive black hole in galaxy 1ES 1927+654 provide new insights into jet formation.

The resulting plasma reaches temperatures exceeding several thousand degrees Celsius. ・Jet Thrust Generation: The high-temperature plasma rapidly expands as it exits the ionization chamber.

This jet suppression is a clear sign that the gold ... flow caused by hydrodynamic properties of the "perfect liquid" plasma. When PHENIX scientists observed similar hydrodynamic flow patterns ...

For the first time, scientists witness a supermassive black hole releasing jets of material at immense speeds, offering a glimpse into jet formation and propagation in active galactic nuclei.

Jet quenching as a sign of QGP Looking for the ... gets caught up in interactions with the quarks and gluons that make up the plasma. “Those interactions lead to energy loss,” explained ...