Some black holes emit powerful blasts of plasma Kyle Parfrey
Even though black holes themselves let almost nothing escape, the areas just around themĀ emit powerful jets of plasma and energy. The blastsĀ are some of brightest places in the universeĀ and may form with the help of strange particles that pull energy from black holes.
In the area around a black hole, fast-moving photons smash into one another, creating pairs of electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons, which form a swirling plasma. Kyle Parfrey at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California and his colleagues built a set of…
