A pilot has multiple brake pedals at their feet to individually engage the jet's wheel brakes, which are controlled via a series of hydraulic pumps and rotating discs lined with high-friction ...

Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the black ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in that galaxy is rotating.

Simulations of highly magnetized stars that explode and collapse into black holes show that they transfer their magnetic fields to the disk of swirling matter that forms around the new black hole.

It’s a bit like the rotor disk of a helicopter.” The jet suit can stay aloft for five minutes—and Richardson recently broke his own world speed record, achieving 85 mph. He is discussing ...