NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a massive plasma jet erupting from the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87. This “blow-torch”-like jet, traveling near the speed of ...

Instead of a tempest in a teapot, imagine the cosmos in a canister. Scientists have performed experiments using nested, ...

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 ...

The scientists studied a black hole system consisting of a stellar-mass black hole and a sun-like star orbiting each other. In this system, 5 or 6 jets occur over a period of about 20 days, making ...

Stars could be sliced in half by "relativistic blades," or ultra-powerful outflows of plasma shaped by extremely strong magnetic fields, an unpublished paper claims.

Instead, upon entering the black hole, objects start rotating in a process called “frame-dragging,” which swirls surrounding plasma into spiraling accretion disks.

Sometimes the star's fiery plasma entrails immediately settle into a round, flat accretion disk around the black hole, just like something out of a physics textbook.

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 ...

Supermassive black holes that shred and Supermassive black holes that shred and devour stars throw them up like a "bad curry" and cover themselves in the wreckage, sick new simulations reveal.

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered a black hole as it spaghettified a hapless star. The intermediate-size black hole, located 850 million light-years from Earth in the galaxy SDSS J152120.07+140410.5 ...

An artist's concept of a black hole orbited by a neutron star. Image: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) When a black hole and a neutron star finally meet, the result is cosmic carnage—and now, thanks to ...