A star’s fatal brush with a supermassive black hole can light up a quiet galaxy. When gravity shreds the star, its gas ...

A chain of plasmoids is created on the equatorial plane along the current sheet, where the particle density (left part) is higher. Here, magnetic reconnection takes place, accelerating particles to ...

A new image of M87 shows and confirms for the first time the feeding ring and jet of its supermassive black hole.

At the center of the galaxy M87, located about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, lies M87*, a supermassive black hole with a mass equivalent to six and a half billion times that ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Prof. An Tao from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a novel "precessing magnetic jet engine" model to explain the peculiar gamma-ray burst ...

Theoretical astrophysicists have developed a numerical code to describe with high mathematical precision how black holes transform their rotational energy into ultra-fast jets. (Nanowerk News) A ...

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