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The nearby radio galaxy M87 offers a unique opportunity to explore the connections between the central supermassive black hole and relativistic jets. Previous studies of the inner region of M87 revealed a wide opening angle for the jet…

The formation and large-scale propagation of Poynting-dominated jets produced by accreting, rapidly rotating black hole systems are studied by numerically integrating the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic equations of motion to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Jonathan C. McKinney

Stellar-mass black holes with relativistic jets, also known as microquasars, mimic the behavior of quasars and active galactic nuclei. Because timescales around stellar-mass black holes are orders of magnitude smaller than those around more…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-03-26 Joseph Neilsen , Julia C. Lee

We present various instability mechanisms in the accreting black hole systems which might indicate at the connection between the accretion disk and jet. The jets observed in microquasars can have a persistent or blobby morphology.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Agnieszka Janiuk , Bozena Czerny , Monika Moscibrodzka , Aneta Siemiginowska

We examine the consequences of a model in which relativistic jets can be triggered in quiescent massive black holes when a geometrically thick and hot accretion disk forms as a result of the tidal disruption of a star. To estimate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Fabio De Colle , James Guillochon , Jill Naiman , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Observational constraints on the configuration of the black hole (BH)-accretion disk-jet system are crucial to understanding BH spin, accretion disk physics, and jet formation. The recently reported variation in the M87 jet position angle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 Yuzhu Cui , Weikang Lin

We show that in realistic cases of accretion in active galactic nuclei or stellar-mass X-ray binaries, the Lense-Thirring effect breaks the central regions of tilted accretion discs around spinning black holes into a set of distinct planes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Chris Nixon , Andrew King , Daniel Price , Juhan Frank

Using long-duration general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of radiatively inefficient accretion discs, the energy, momentum and mass outflow rates from such systems are estimated. Outflows occur via two fairly distinct modes:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Sadowski , R. Narayan , R. Penna , Y. Zhu

Relativistic outflows (jets) of matter are commonly observed from systems containing black holes. The strongest outflows occur in the radio-loud systems, in which the accretion disk is likely to have an advection-dominated structure. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Truong Le , Peter A. Becker

We present multi-frequency monitoring observations of the black hole X-ray binary V404 Cygni throughout its June 2015 outburst. Our data set includes radio and mm/sub-mm photometry, taken with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, Arc-Minute…

I review recent progress in the theory of relativistic jet production, with special emphasis on unifying black hole sources of stellar and supermassive size. Observations of both classes of objects, as well as theoretical considerations,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David L. Meier

We study time-dependent relativistic jets under the influence of radiation field of the accretion disk. The accretion disk consists of an inner compact corona and an outer sub-Keplerian disk. The thermodynamics of the fluid is governed by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-31 Raj Kishor Joshi , Sanjit Debnath , Indranil Chattopadhyay

Relativistic jets from supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei are amongst the most powerful phenomena in the universe, acting to regulate the growth of massive galaxies. Similar jets from stellar-mass black holes offer a chance…

Structured jets are recently invoked to explain the complex emission of gamma ray bursts, such as GW 170817. Based on the accretion simulations, the jets are expected to have a structure that is more complex than a simple top-hat. Also, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 Agnieszka Janiuk , Bestin James , Ishika Palit

We investigate how magnetic field variations around accreting black holes on event horizon scales affect the morphology of magnetically-driven jet on larger scales. By performing radiative transfer calculations on general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-24 Yuh Tsunetoe , Ramesh Narayan , Angelo Ricarte

In this letter, we investigate Bondi-like accretion flows with zero or low specific angular momentum by performing 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations. In order to check if relativistic jets can be launched magnetically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-06 Tom M. Kwan , Lixin Dai , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

In the last decade multi-wavelength observations have demonstrated the importance of jets in the energy output of accreting black hole binaries. The observed correlations between the presence of a jet and the state of the accretion flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Julien Malzac

Relativistic jets are launched from black hole (BH) X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei when the disk accretion rate is below a certain limit (i.e., when the ratio of the accretion rate to the Eddingtion accretion rate, $\dot{m}$, is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-16 Hung-Yi Pu , Kouichi Hirotani , Hsiang-Kuang Chang

The dramatic relativistic jets pointing directly at us in BL Lac objects can be well modelled by bulk motion beaming of synchrotron self-Compton emission powered by a low Eddington fraction accretion flow. Nearly 500 of these AGN are seen…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Emma Gardner , Chris Done