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It is generally accepted that the launching of astrophysical jets requires a large-scale magnetic field threading a central object (black hole or star) and/or its surrounding accretion disc. However, the collimation mechanism far away from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Thomas Jannaud , Jonathan Ferreira , Claudio Zanni

Jets are a ubiquitous part of the accretion process, created in AGN, by a coupling between the magnetic field near the central black hole and inflowing material. We point out what advances can be achieved by new technologies, concentrating…

A hyperaccretion disk formed around a stellar mass black hole is a plausible model for the central engine that powers gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). If the central black hole rotates and a poloidal magnetic field threads its horizon, a powerful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Norita Kawanaka , Tsvi Piran , Julian H. Krolik

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most energetic events in the universe, driven by relativistic jets launched from black holes (BHs) formed during the collapse of massive stars or after the merger of two neutron stars (NSs). The jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-18 Zhao-Feng Wu , Michail Damoulakis , Paz Beniamini , Dimitrios Giannios

Galaxy clusters contain a hot, diffuse, and weakly magnetized plasma known as the intracluster medium (ICM). In this environment, how thermal conduction influences plasma dynamics and the conditions under which it operates efficiently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Nana Matsuno , Takaaki Yokoyama , Mami Machida

Spinning supermassive black holes (BHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGN) magnetically launch relativistic collimated outflows, or jets. Without angular momentum supply, such jets are thought to perish within $3$ orders of magnitude in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-19 Aretaios Lalakos , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Omer Bromberg , Ore Gottlieb , Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , Matthew Liska , Haocheng Zhang

The Blandford-Znajek process, which uses a magnetized plasma to extract energy from a rotating black hole, is one of the leading candidates for powering relativistic jets. In this work, we investigate the Blandford-Znajek process in two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-07 Jameson Dong , Nicolás Patiño , Yiqi Xie , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Charles F. Gammie , Nicolás Yunes

Relativistic jets can be produced within the accretion disk of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), leading to distinct thermal emission as they propagate through a dense disk environment. In this paper, we present a comprehensive study of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Ken Chen , Zi-Gao Dai

One of the leading mechanisms powering relativistic black hole jets is the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) process. Inspired by its success we construct energy extracting models for black holes in five space-time dimensions. Here, we find solutions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-09 Alexandra Chanson , Maria J. Rodriguez

We present 3D adaptive mesh refinement MHD simulations of an isolated galaxy cluster that include injection of kinetic, thermal, and magnetic energy via a central active galactic nucleus (AGN) in order to study and evaluate the role that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 P. M. Sutter , H. -Y. Yang , P. M. Ricker , G. Foreman , D. Pugmire

A jet acceleration model for extracting energy from disk-corona surrounding a rotating black hole is proposed. In the disk-corona scenario, we obtain the ratio of the power dissipated in the corona to the total for such disk-corona system…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-17 Xiaolong Gong , Lixin Li

It is widely believed that relativistic jets in X-ray binaries and active-galactic nuclei are powered by the rotational energy of black holes. This idea is supported by general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-24 Michael O' Riordan , Asaf Pe'er , Jonathan C. McKinney

We present a new implementation for active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback through small-scale, ultra-fast winds in the moving-mesh hydrodynamic code AREPO. The wind is injected by prescribing mass, momentum and energy fluxes across a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-19 Tiago Costa , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

The cooling flow problem is one of the central problems in galaxy clusters, and active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback is considered to play a key role in offsetting cooling. However, how AGN jets heat and suppress cooling flows remains…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-08 Fulai Guo , Xiaodong Duan , Ye-Fei Yuan

We use SWIFT, a smoothed particle hydrodynamics code, to simulate the evolution of bubbles inflated by active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets, as well as their interactions with the ambient intracluster medium (ICM). These jets inflate lobes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Filip Huško , Cedric G. Lacey

A model is presented in which the strongest radio-emitting jet outflows are produced in black hole systems when the accretion is a geometrically thick ($H/R \sim 1$) inflow ({\it e.g.}, ADAF, CDAF) {\em and} if the black hole is rotating.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 David L. Meier

How mechanical AGN feedback couples to multiphase condensation across scales remains a problem in galaxy groups and clusters. It is unclear how jets reshape the chaotic cold accretion (CCA) cycle and regulate black-hole fueling.…

Compact relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei offer an effective tool for investigating the physics of nuclear regions in galaxies. The emission properties, dynamics, and evolution of jets in AGN are closely connected to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrei Lobanov

The energy released by Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the form of radiation, winds, or radio plasma jets, is known to impact on the surrounding interstellar medium. The result of these processes, known as AGN (negative) feedback, is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-15 Raffaella Morganti

AGN feedback during galaxy merger has been the most favoured model to explain black hole-galaxy co-evolution. However, how the AGN-driven jet/wind/radiation is coupled with the gas of the merging galaxies, which leads to positive feedback,…