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.

Astronomers have witnessed a monster supermassive black hole erupting with a light-year-long jet traveling at one-third the ...

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

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.

Scientists at the PHENIX experiment at RHIC have uncovered compelling evidence that even collisions involving small nuclei ...

It clearly shows a pair of oppositely directed plasma jets forming near the black hole and expanding outward over the course of 2023 – 2024. Among the other unusual behavior of the black hole, this is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...