Astrophysical Jets
April 12, 2011
Astrophysical jets are ubiquitous throughout the universe. They can be observed to emerge from protostellar objects, stellar x-ray binaries and supermassive black holes located at the center of active galaxies, and they are believed to originate from a central object that is surrounded by a magnetized accretion disc. credit: New Journal of Physics
Topics:
Supermassive black holes, Black holes, Jets, New Journal of Physics, X-ray, Galaxies, Polar jet, Relativistic jet, Gamma-ray burst progenitors, Accretion disc, Astrophysics, Active galactic nucleus
