Artist’s depiction of a jet ejection (IMAGE)

University of Toyama

Artist’s depiction of a jet ejection

Caption

The jet from the black hole turns on when the inner radius of the accretion disk shrinks down to the ISCO fast enough.

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Professor Toshihiro Kawaguchi from University of Toyama, Japan and Dr. Kazutaka Yamaoka from Nagoya University, Japan Source Link: http://www3.u-toyama.ac.jp/kawaguti/researchE.html

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