Black-hole process
Relativistic Jet
A narrow beam of plasma launched at nearly the speed of light from the vicinity of an accreting black hole — from stellar black holes in binaries and from the supermassive black holes powering active galaxies. Jets can span from light-years to millions of light-years and are thought to be powered by the black hole's spin and magnetic fields.
Highlights
- ›Plasma beamed at near light speed from an accreting black hole
Classes, physics & objects
Across compact objects
Knowledge connections
- Associated withBlack Hole
- Associated withAccretion Disk
- Associated withActive Galactic Nucleus
- Associated withBlazar
- Associated withThe Blandford–Znajek Mechanism
- Associated withThe Blandford–Znajek Mechanism
- Associated withCygnus X-1 (black hole)
- Associated withV404 Cygni
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
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