{"id":211041,"date":"2025-04-10T02:23:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T07:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-discover-how-stellar-mass-black-holes-emit-powerful-plasma-jets"},"modified":"2025-04-10T02:23:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T07:23:28","slug":"scientists-discover-how-stellar-mass-black-holes-emit-powerful-plasma-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-discover-how-stellar-mass-black-holes-emit-powerful-plasma-jets","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover how stellar-mass black holes emit powerful plasma jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-how-stellar-mass-black-holes-emit-powerful-plasma-jets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Black holes are fundamental to the structure of galaxies and critical in our understanding of gravity, space, and time. A stellar mass black hole is a type of black hole that forms from the gravitational collapse of a massive star at the end of its life cycle. These black holes typically have masses ranging from about 3 to 20 times the mass of our sun.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/black+holes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">black holes<\/a> generate beams of ionized gas (plasma) that shoot outward at nearly light speed. Although discovered more than a century ago, how and why jets occur has remained a mystery, described as one of the \u201cwonders of physics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Kazutaka Yamaoka from Nagoya University in Japan, along with his colleagues from the University of Toyama and other international institutes, have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/plasma+jets\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">plasma jets<\/a>. Their findings, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/pasj\/article\/77\/2\/237\/8015541\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan<\/i><\/a>, show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage toward the black hole, jet formation occurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black holes are fundamental to the structure of galaxies and critical in our understanding of gravity, space, and time. A stellar mass black hole is a type of black hole that forms from the gravitational collapse of a massive star at the end of its life cycle. These black holes typically have masses ranging from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}