"We think that magnetic activity on or around the stellar surface creates the super-hot plasma, " Hamaguchi said.

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Siphons, exploiting surface tension, remove a discrete amount of plasma to another chamber, where it is spun again and diluted.

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These form a ball of plasma about 300 times hotter than the surface of the Sun.

BBC: Artist's representation of a black hole,