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Accreting black holes produce collimated outflows, or jets, that traverse many orders of magnitude in distance, accelerate to relativistic velocities, and collimate into tight opening angles. Of these, perhaps the least understood is jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Sera B. Markoff

We perform two-dimensional, axisymmetric, magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the collapse of a rotating star of 40 Msun and in the light of the collapsar model of gamma-ray burst. Considering two distributions of angular momentum, up to…

Black holes generate collimated, relativistic jets which have been observed in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), microquasars, and at the center of some galaxies (active galactic nuclei; AGN). How jet physics scales from stellar black holes in GRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-04 Rodrigo S. Nemmen , Markos Georganopoulos , Sylvain Guiriec , Eileen T. Meyer , Neil Gehrels , Rita M. Sambruna

The nuclei of most normal galaxies contain supermassive black holes, which can accrete gas through a disk and become active. These Active Galactic Nuclei, AGN, can form jets which are observed on scales from AU to Mpc and from meter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 Roger Blandford , David Meier , Anthony Readhead

We explore the formation, energetics, and geometry of relativistic jets along with the variability of their central engine. We study both fast and slowly rotating black holes and address our simulations to active galaxy (AGN) centers and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 A. Janiuk , B. James

We show that the integration constant in the vacuum Schwarzschild solution has the unique value, alpha_0=0, accordingly Black Holes too have the same unique value of mass M0=0. Therefore the so-called Black Holes Candidates (BHC) cannot be…

General Physics · Physics 2009-07-16 Abhas Mitra

We present 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic(GRMHD) simulations of zero angular momentum accretion around a rapidly rotating black hole, modified by the presence of initially uniform magnetic fields. We consider serveral angles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-17 Sean M. Ressler , Eliot Quataert , Christopher J. White , Omer Blaes

Perturber objects interacting with supermassive black hole accretion disks are often invoked to explain observed quasi-periodic behavior in active galactic nuclei (AGN). We present global, 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-04 Sean M. Ressler , Luciano Combi , Xinyu Li , Bart Ripperda , Huan Yang

This paper theoretically investigates the relations between the structure of relativistic jets and produced synchrotron images, by using a steady axisymmetric force-free jet model. We especially focus on the limb-brightened jets that are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-05 Kazuya Takahashi , Kenji Toma , Motoki Kino , Masanori Nakamura , Kazuhiro Hada

The most accepted model for jet production is based on the magneto-centrifugal acceleration out off an accretion disk that surrounds the central source (Blandford & Payne, 1982). This scenario, however, does not explain, e.g., the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Pamela P. Piovezan , Luis H. S. Kadowaki , Grzegorz Kowal , Alex Lazarian

Strong toroidal magnetic fields generated in stellar collapse can generate magneto-centrifugal jets in analogy to those found in simulations of black hole accretion and explain why all core collapse supernovae are found to be substantially…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Craig Wheeler , David L. Meier , James R. Wilson

The disk of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) is widely regarded as a prominent formation channel of binary black hole (BBH) mergers that can be detected through gravitational waves (GWs). Besides, the presence of dense environmental gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-20 Ken Chen , Zi-Gao Dai

Supermassive black holes (SMBH) are essential for the production of jets in radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN). Theoretical models based on Blandford & Znajek extract the rotational energy from a Kerr black hole, which could be the…

The idea that black hole spin is instrumental in the generation of powerful jets in active galactic nuclei and X-ray binaries is arguably the most contentious claim in black hole astrophysics. Because jets are thought to originate in the…

General Physics · Physics 2017-06-12 David Garofalo

We apply a general relativistic framework to static and rotating black hole solutions in Scalar-Tensor-Vector Gravity or modified gravity (MOG). Our results yield exact analytic, closed-form relations expressing the mass $M$, the MOG…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-10 José Miguel Rojas , Mehrab Momennia

We propose a novel mechanism for powering the central engines of Active Galactic Nuclei through super-critical (type II) black hole collapse. In this picture, ~$10^3 M_\odot$ of material collapsing at relativistic speeds can trigger a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-05-19 A. Avgoustidis , R. Jimenez , L. Alvarez-Gaume , M. A. Vazquez-Mozo

Approximately 10% of active galactic nuclei exhibit relativistic jets, which are powered by accretion of matter onto super massive black holes. While the measured width profiles of such jets on large scales agree with theories of magnetic…

Jets emanating from active galactic nuclei (AGN) represent some of the most formidable particle accelerators in the universe, thereby emerging as viable candidates responsible for the detection of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). If…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-25 Olmo Piana , Hung-Yi Pu

The astrophysical consequences of the presence of a quintessence scalar field on the evolution of the horizon and on the accretion disk surrounding a static black hole, in the Scalar-Vector-Tensor version of Modified Gravity (MOG), are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-15 Haidar Sheikhahmadi , Saheb Soroushfar , S. N. Sajadi , Tiberiu Harko

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are generally accepted to be powered by the release of gravitational energy in a compact accretion disk surrounding a massive black hole. Such disks are also necessary to collimate powerful radio jets seen in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jack F. Gallimore , Stefi A. Baum , Christopher P. O'Dea