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In recent work, we have identified two sub-populations of radio-loud AGN which appear to be distinguished by jet structure, where low-efficiency accreting systems produce `weak' jets which decelerate more rapidly than the `strong' jets of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-04 Eileen T. Meyer , Giovanni Fossati , Markos Georganopoulos , Matthew L. Lister

It is well known that active galactic nuclei (AGN) show various forms of interaction with their host galaxy, in a number of phenomena generally called AGN feedback. In particular, the relativistic plasma jets launched by a fraction of AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-03 Marco Berton , Emilia Järvelä

The last decade has witnessed significant progress in our understanding of the growth of super-massive black holes (SMBHs). It is now clear that an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN: the observed manifestation of a growing SMBH) is an "event"…

Jets are ubiquitous in the Universe and, as demonstrated in this volume, are seen from a large number of astrophysical objects. For a number of reasons, in particular their proximity and the abundant range of diagnostics to determine their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 T. P. Ray , J. Ferreira

We propose a scenario where during galaxy formation an active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback mechanism starts before the formation of a supermassive black hole (SMBH). The supermassive star (SMS) progenitor of the SMBH accretes mass as it…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Ealeal Bear , Noam Soker

Among the emerging excess of massive, bright galaxies at Cosmic Dawn $z \gtrsim 9$ seen by the James Webb Space Telescope, several exhibit spectral features associated with active galactic nuclei (AGN). These AGN candidates suggest that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-23 James Sunseri , Zachary L. Andalman , Romain Teyssier

In this review I concentrate exclusively on models for the large-scale structure created by jet flows in AGN. I briefly mention models for the evolution and emission of these objects and how they can also be applied to microquasars. While…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-14 Christian R. Kaiser

AGN jets are thought to be vital ingredients in galaxy evolution through the action of kinetic feedback; however, how narrow, relativistic outflows couple to galaxies remains an open question. Jet deceleration, which is often attributed to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Talia M. O'Shea , Sebastian Heinz , Melinda Soares-Furtado , Zsofi Igo , Andrea Merloni

Long-lived, stable jets are observed in a wide variety of systems, from protostars, through Galactic compact objects to active galactic nuclei (AGN). Magnetic fields play a central role in launching, accelerating, and collimating the jets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 R. E. Pudritz , M. J. Hardcastle , D. C. Gabuzda

The jets from active galactic nuclei exhibit stability which seems to be far superior compared to that of terrestrial and laboratory jets. They manage to propagate over distances up to a billion of initial jet radii. Yet this may not be an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Serguei S. Komissarov

We use high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations to model mechanical and thermal feedback from AGN onto the evolution of Seyfert-type galaxies, studying the morphology of central galaxies growing within dark matter (DM) halos with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-18 Julianne Goddard , Isaac Shlosman , Emilio Romano-Diaz

It is suggested that the outflowing plasma in the jets of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is inhomogeneous and consists of separate clouds. These clouds are strongly magnetized and move away from the central engine at relativistic speeds. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-03 V. V. Usov , M. V. Smolsky

Observations at low redshift have begun to tease out the star formation rate in active galaxies (AGN), which marks the beginning of the black hole-star formation connection over cosmic time. Star formation appears to depend on AGN type,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-03 Chandra B. Singh , Nelitha Kulasiri , Max North , David Garofalo

According to the currently favored picture, relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) are launched in the vicinity of the black hole by magnetic fields extracting energy from the spinning black hole or the accretion disk. In the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Talvikki Hovatta

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback operated by the expansion of radio jets can play a crucial role in driving gaseous outflows on galaxy scales. Galaxies hosting young radio AGN, whose jets are in the first phases of expansion through…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-04 F. Santoro , C. Tadhunter , D. Baron , R. Morganti , J. Holt

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) host powerful jets containing high-energy electrons and protons. The astrophysical environment where AGNs and their jets are found is characterized by large concentrations of both dark matter (DM) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-10 Stefano Profumo , Lorenzo Ubaldi , Mikhail Gorchtein

High velocity jets are among the most prominent features of a wide class of planetary nebulae, but their origins are not understood. Several different types of physical model have been suggested to power the jets, but there is no consensus…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 P. J. Huggins

As smaller analogs of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), X-ray Binaries (XRBs) are also capable of launching jets that accelerate particles to high energies. In this work, we reexamine XRB jets as potential sources of high-energy cosmic rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-17 A. J. Cooper , D. Gaggero , S. Markoff , S. Zhang

Cosmic reionization put an end to the dark ages that came after the recombination era. Observations seem to favor the scenario where massive stars generating photons in low-mass galaxies were responsible for the bulk of reionization. Even…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-11 N. Torres-Albà , V. Bosch-Ramon , K. Iwasawa

Jetted plasma outflows from active galactic nuclei (AGN) represent the most energetic phenomena in the known universe, and play a key role in regulating galaxy formation through feedback processes. The JVLA and VLBA have played an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-18 Matthew L. Lister , Kenneth I. Kellermann , Preeti Kharb