A humongous jet ... the afterburner flow of a fighter jet, and scientists say it may have formed in a similar way. Except, in this case a supermassive black hole is subbing in for the jet engine.

When the pilot engages the afterburner, it creates a reaction that erupts enough force to propel the jet forward. The fuel (usually kerosene) enters the engine through hundreds of tiny holes and ...

The TF-104 (with the Author sitting in the backseat) takes off in full afterburner from Grosseto airbase on Nov. 27, 2000. As any other jet engine with reheat, J79s with afterburner were ...

A normal shock can be seen in the above diagram when the flow again turns ... recognize as shock diamonds in the exhaust of a jet or rocket engine. Along with the Mach Disks the clip shows also ...

California while performing afterburner engine run tests. The tests were aimed at verifying the performance of the X-59's General Electric F414-GE-100 jet engine, a modified version of the engine ...

looking quite similar to the afterburner pattern of a jet engine on Earth. This galactic jet flow is more than 2 million light-years long, at least 20 times larger than our Milky Way galaxy.

A typical jet engine uses only about half the oxygen it ingests, leaving a large amount of potential energy. The afterburner, which is a long extension at the back of the engine, combines much of ...

Image: The Economist A conventional jet engine uses lots of moving parts (see diagram). Rotating blades ... An RDE would guzzle less fuel than an afterburner, but it might be as rowdy.

Afterburners temporarily boost the amount of thrust available and enhance a jet's capabilities. For example, while the T-38 Talon's engines produce 2,050 pounds of dry thrust (no afterburner ...

Injecting raw fuel into the exhaust stream of a jet engine, afterburners are responsible ... Of course, building an afterburner for an EDF does add a lot of complication. A flame tube was ...