1205.3128 (Luigi Foschini)

The Gravitational Asynchronous Machine    [PDF]

Luigi Foschini

How relativistic jets are generated is one of the hottest topics of the modern astrophysics. Several theories have been proposed to explain the wide variety of observed phenomena, but none seems to catch the general consensus, although the mechanism proposed for black holes in 1977 by Blandford & Znajek (BZ) deserves some favor. In the following essay, I study some relatively unexplored features in the black hole/jet/disk feedback as derived from the application of the BZ theory.

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