World's First Plasma "Fireballs" Help Explain Supermassive Black Hole Mystery

World's First Plasma "Fireballs" Help Explain Supermassive Black Hole Mystery

This work uses particle colliders to solve the gamma-ray mystery related to blazars' jets.

World’s First Plasma Fireballs Finally Solve the Mystery of Supermassive Black Holes

Scientists have managed to recreate plasma “fireballs” in the lab. This experiment, the first of its kind, could finally explain why certain gamma rays from distant galaxies are missing. It turns out the culprit might not be what everyone expected, and the answer lies in a subtle, but crucial, feature of intergalactic space. Blazars, those strange and powerful galaxies powered by supermassive black holes, emit fast-moving jets of particles that …