Tag Archives: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Scientists create lab-grown black hole jets

When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An artist’s depiction of a black hole releasing jets. | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech An experiment that uses proton beams to probe how plasma and magnetic fields interact may have solved the mystery of how quasars and other active supermassive black… Read More »

‘Artificial sun’ achieves record-breaking fusion experiment, bringing us closer to clean, unlimited energy

A fusion reactor in the south of France has reached a major milestone towards clean, unlimited energy. Fusion reactor WEST created a super-hot plasma and maintained it for a record-breaking 6 minutes. The experiment lays the foundation for a larger fusion reactor called ITER. A fusion reactor in southern France called WEST has reached a… Read More »