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We present a novel approach which produces Dark Matter jets along the rotation axis of Kerr black holes utilizing the Penrose process. The properties of these jets are investigated, as well as their potential to create Dark Matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-09 Ottavia Balducci , Stefan Hofmann , Maximilian Koegler

We investigate the effect of a disc-driven jet on the accretion growth of cosmological supermassive black holes (SMBHs). The presence of a jet enhances the mass growth rate because for a given luminosity, the mass accretion rate, is higher…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Erin Jolley , Zdenka Kuncic

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

The inner parts of an accretion disk around a spinning black hole are forced to align with the spin of the hole by the Bardeen-Petterson effect. Assuming that any jet produced by such a system is aligned with the angular momentum of either…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Priyamvada Natarajan , J. E. Pringle

Recently, Allen et al. measured a tight correlation between the Bondi accretion rates and jet powers of the nuclei of nearby X-ray luminous elliptical galaxies. We employ two models of jet powering to understand the above correlation and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rodrigo S. Nemmen , Richard G. Bower , Arif Babul , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann

Jet origination is one of the most important questions of AGN, yet it stays obscure. In this work, we made use of information of emission lines, spectral energy distributions (SEDs), \textit{Fermi}-LAT $\gamma$-ray emission, construct a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 Hubing Xiao , Zhihao OuYang , Lixia Zhang , Liping Fu , Shaohua Zhang , Xiangtao Zeng , Junhui Fan

Rotating black holes are known to launch relativistic jets and accelerate particles provided they accrete a magnetized plasma. However, it remains unclear how the global magnetic field orientation affects the jet powering efficiency. Here,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-27 Enzo Figueiredo , Benoît Cerutti , Kyle Parfrey

Jets are endemic to both Galactic solar mass and extragalactic supermassive black holes. A recent 86 GHz image of M\,87 shows a jet emerging from the accretion ring around a black hole, providing the first direct observational constraint on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-22 Brian Punsly

The theoretical model suggests that relativistic jets of AGN rely on the black hole spin and/or accretion. We study the relationship between jet, accretion, and spin using supermassive black hole samples with reliable spin of black holes.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-11 Yongyun Chen , Qiusheng Gu , Jianghe Yang , Junhui Fan , Xiaoling Yu , Dingrong Xiong , Nan Ding , Xiaotong Guo

We investigate the extraction of the rotational energy of a black hole under different accreting environment. When the accretion rate is moderate, the accretion disk consists of an outer thin disk and an inner advection-dominated accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-08 Hung-Yi Pu , Kouichi Hirotani , Yosuke Mizuno , Hsiang-Kuang Chang

Relativistic jets have been found for decades as a key phenomenon in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), compact binary systems, and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), yet their energy resources remain a mystery. Two competing ideas prevail: one…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Shu-Xu Yi , Tian-Yong Cao , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Hua Feng

The mechanisms that produce and power relativistic jets are fundamental open questions in black hole (BH) astrophysics. In order to constrain these mechanisms, we analyze the energy efficiency of jet production 'eta' based on archival…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Rodrigo S. Nemmen , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

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

We describe global, 3D, time-dependent, non-radiative, general-relativistic, magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accreting black holes (BHs). The simulations are designed to transport a large amount of magnetic flux to the center, more than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Ramesh Narayan , Jonathan C. McKinney

A brief overview of jets and their central drivers is presented, with a focus on accreting black hole systems. In particular, scaling relations that elucidate some basic properties of the engines are derived, and the implications for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Amir Levinson

In this lecture I give an introduction to the rotational energy extraction of black holes by the electromagnetic Blandford-Znajek process and the generation of relativistic jets. After some basic material on the electrodynamics of black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Norbert Straumann

We revisit the paradigm of the dependency of jet power on black hole spin in accreting black hole systems. In a previous paper we showed that the luminosity of compact jets continuously launched due to accretion onto black holes in X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 D. M. Russell , E. Gallo , R. P. Fender

The generation of relativistic jets in active sources such as blazars is a complex problem with many aspects, most of them still not fully understood. Relativistic jets are likely produced by the accretion of matter and magnetic fields onto…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-21 Gustavo E. Romero , Eduardo M. Gutiérrez

Active galaxies and quasers are believed to harbour Black Holes at their centers and at the same time produce cosmic radio jets through which immense amount of matter and energy are ejected out of the core of the galaxy. In our work we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tapas K. Das

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