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The rotational energy of a black hole can be extracted via the Blandford-Znajek mechanism and numerical simulations suggest a strong dependence of the power of the produced jet on the black hole spin. A recent study has found no evidence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-21 Cosimo Bambi

The extraction of rotational energy from a spinning black hole via the Blandford-Znajek mechanism has long been understood as an important component in models to explain energetic jets from compact astrophysical sources. Here we show more…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 David Neilsen , Luis Lehner , Carlos Palenzuela , Eric W. Hirschmann , Steven L. Liebling , Patrick M. Motl , T. Garrett

According to the Blandford-Znajek mechanism, black hole jets are powered by the rotational energy of the compact object. In this work, we consider the possibility that the metric around black holes may not be described by the Kerr solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-04 Guancheng Pei , Sourabh Nampalliwar , Cosimo Bambi , Matthew J. Middleton

A rotating black hole probably powers ultrarelativistic jets in gamma-ray bursts, relativistic jets from some active galactic nuclei, and jets from some black hole x-ray binaries. Prior estimates of the power output of a black hole have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jonathan C. McKinney

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

The Blandford-Znajek (BZ) mechanism is widely recognised as the most compelling process to extract rotational energy from an accreting black hole and power the emission of relativistic jets. We explore the universality of this process for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-02 Filippo Camilloni , Luciano Rezzolla

The power of jets from black holes are expected to depend on both the spin of the black hole and the structure of the accretion disk in the region of the last stable orbit. We investigate these dependencies using two different physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Rodrigo S. Nemmen , Richard G. Bower , Arif Babul , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann

When magnetic field lines thread a rotating black hole's horizon and connect with remote astrophysical loads, the rotational energy of the black hole can be extracted through the Blandford-Znajek mechanism. Due to the rotation of the black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Li-Xin Li

We perform the first numerical simulations modeling the inflow and outflow of magnetized plasma in the Kerr-Sen spacetime, which describes classical spinning black holes (BHs) in string theory. We find that the Blandford-Znajek (BZ)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-01 Koushik Chatterjee , Prashant Kocherlakota , Ziri Younsi , Ramesh Narayan

The launching of astrophysical jets provides the most compelling observational evidence for direct extraction of black hole (BH) spin energy via the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) mechanism. Whilst it is known that spinning Kerr BHs within general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-08 Koushik Chatterjee , Ziri Younsi , Prashant Kocherlakota , Ramesh Narayan

Three energy mechanisms invoking large-scale magnetic fields are incorporated in a model to interpret jet production in black hole (BH) systems, i.e., the Blandford-Znajek (BZ), the magnetic coupling (MC) and Blandford-Payne (BP) processes.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ding-Xiong Wang , Yong-Chun Ye , Yang Li , Zhao-Jiang Ge

Blandford-Znajek (BZ) mechanism describes a process extracting rotation energy from a spinning black hole (BH) via magnetic field lines penetrating the event horizon of central BH. In this paper, we present a perturbation approach to study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-14 Zhen Pan , Cong Yu

Relativistic jets from black holes can extract energy not only from accretion but also directly from the black hole's spin, as described by the Blandford-Znajek mechanism. A longstanding question is whether magnetic flux can accumulate near…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-27 Antonios Nathanail

The Blandford-Znajek mechanism has long been regarded as a key ingredient in models attempting to explain powerful jets in AGNs, quasars, blazzars etc. In such mechanism, energy is extracted from a rotating black hole and dissipated at a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Carlos Palenzuela , Carles Bona , Luis Lehner , Oscar Reula

The Blandford-Znajek (BZ) process powers energetic jets by extracting the rotating energy of a Kerr black hole. It is important to understand this process in non-Kerr black hole spacetimes. In this study, we conduct two-dimensional and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-09 Hong-Xuan Jiang , Indu K. Dihingia , Cheng Liu , Yosuke Mizuno , Tao Zhu

The Blandford-Znajek theory (1977) is generally studied to understand the generation of powerful relativistic jets. However, it could also give important insights about the feedback between a rotating black hole, its ergosphere, and a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-18 Luigi Foschini

The presence of a strong, large-scale magnetic field in an accretion flow leads to extraction of the rotational energy of the black hole (BH) through the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) process, believed to power relativistic jets in various…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-28 Prasun Dhang , Jason Dexter , Mitchell C. Begelman

The Blandford-Znajek process, the steady electromagnetic energy extraction from a rotating black hole, is widely believed to work for driving relativistic jets, although it is still under debate where the electric current is driven. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Kenji Toma , Fumio Takahara

The Blandford-Znajek (BZ) process is steady electromagnetic energy release from rotating black holes (BHs) along magnetic field lines threading them and widely believed to drive relativistic jets. This process is successfully demonstrated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-18 Kenji Toma , Fumio Takahara , Masanori Nakamura

One of the major open questions related to the production of jets by accreting black holes is: why do sources with similar accretion powers produce so vastly different jet powers? What conditions are required to make a powerful jet? If jets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-19 Tuomas Savolainen , Wara Chamani
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