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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

The current understanding of the formation of powerful bi-directional jets in systems such as radio galaxies and quasars is that the process involves a supermassive black hole that is being fed with magnetized gas through an orbiting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-03-25 C Sivaram , Kenath Arun

The new high energy data coming mainly from the Fermi and Swift satellites and from the ground based Cerenkov telescopes are making possible to study not only the energetics of blazar jets, but also their connection to the associated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Gabriele Ghisellini

Wind and jet are important medium of AGN feedback thus it is crucial to obtain their properties for the feedback study. In this paper we investigate the properties of wind and jet launched from a magnetized super-Eddington accretion flow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Hai Yang , Feng Yuan , Tom Kwan , Lixin Dai

Unbounded outflows in the form of highly collimated jets and broad winds appear to be a ubiquitous feature of accreting black hole systems. The most powerful jets are thought to derive a significant fraction, if not the majority, of their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrew J. Benson , Arif Babul

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

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

The formation of jets in black hole accretion systems is a long-standing problem. It has been proposed that a jet can be formed by extracting the rotation energy of the black hole ("BZ-jet") or the accretion flow ("disk-jet"). While both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-26 Hai Yang , Feng Yuan , Hui Li , Yosuke Mizuno , Fan Guo , Rusen Lu , Luis C. Ho , Xi Lin , Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Jieshuang Wang

Giant X-ray cavities lie in some active galactic nuclei (AGNs) locating in central galaxies of clusters, most of these cavities are thought to be inflated by jets of AGNs. The jets can be either powered by rotating black holes or the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Shuang-Liang Li , Xinwu Cao

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

Theoretical models show that the power of relativistic jets of active galactic nuclei depends on the spin and mass of the central supermassive black holes, as well as the accretion. Here we report an analysis of archival observations of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-09 Yongyun Chen , Qiusheng Gu , Junhui Fan , Hongyan Zhou , Yefei Yuan , Weimin Gu , Qinwen Wu , Dingrong Xiong , Xiaotong Guo , Nan Ding , Xiaoling Yu

Magnetized accretion onto spinning black holes can accumulate a large magnetic flux across the event horizon and launch a pair of relativistic jets via the Blandford-Znajek mechanism. In the magnetically saturated (arrested) state, excess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-30 Krzysztof Nalewajko , Mateusz Kapusta , Bart Ripperda , Alexander A. Philippov

Recent observations of Seyfert galaxies indicate that low power, misaligned jets can undergo significant interaction with the gas in the galactic disc and may be able to drive large-scale, multiphase outflows. We apply our novel sub-grid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-22 Rosie Y. Talbot , Debora Sijacki , Martin A. Bourne

A common consequence of accretion onto black holes is the formation of powerful, relativistic jets that escape the system. In the case of supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies this has been known for decades, but for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-11 D. M. Russell , R. P. Fender

Magnetic field threading a black hole ergosphere is believed to play the key role in both driving the powerful relativistic jets observed in active galactic nuclei and extracting the rotational energy from a black hole via Blandford-Znajek…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-23 E. Nokhrina

The fact that self-confined jets are observed around black holes, neutron stars and young forming stars points to a jet launching mechanism independent of the nature of the central object, namely the surrounding accretion disc. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Jonathan Ferreira , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci

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

One of the most interesting high-energy, astrophysical phenomena are relativistic jets emitted from highly localized sky location. Such jets are common in Nature, observed to high redshift and in a range of wavelengths. Their precise…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-09-02 Nicolas Yunes

It was suggested that the relativistic jets in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are powered via the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) mechanism or the annihilation of neutrinos and anti-neutrinos from a neutrino cooling-dominated accretion flow (NDAF). The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Xinwu Cao , En-Wei Liang , Ye-Fei Yuan

The mechanism by which outflows and plausible jets are driven from black hole systems, still remains observationally elusive. Notwithstanding, several observational evidences and deeper theoretical insights reveal that accretion and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Debbijoy Bhattacharya , Shubhrangshu Ghosh , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay