Emily Mason, a heliophysicist at San Diego-based research firm Predictive Science, and her colleagues observed coronal loops ...

Yusef-Zadeh attributes the big, bright flares to magnetic reconnection events—a process where two magnetic fields collide, releasing energy in the form of accelerated particles. Traveling at ...

Meanwhile, the longer, bigger flares may occur due to magnetic reconnection events, or when two different magnetic fields collide near the black hole and release energetic particles moving near ...

Yusef-Zadeh attributes the big, bright flares to magnetic reconnection events -- a process where two magnetic fields collide, releasing energy in the form of accelerated particles. Traveling at ...