All articles tagged with #jet formation
Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope plan the first time-resolved movie of a supermassive black hole, targeting M87 to measure spin and jet-launching mechanisms. By stitching data from a world-spanning telescope network, they hope to move beyond the 2019 image and illuminate how black holes influence galaxy evolution, with data processing and delivery taking months before public release.
A detailed supercomputer simulation of neutron star mergers has been conducted, revealing the process of black hole formation and jet creation, which enhances understanding of multi-messenger signals like gravitational waves, neutrinos, and electromagnetic emissions, and provides insights into phenomena such as gamma-ray bursts and heavy element synthesis.
A recent study published in Nature Astronomy has challenged the prevailing theories about x-ray emissions from black hole jets. Contradicting long-standing theories, the study found that x-ray emissions from black hole jets vary over short periods and occur throughout the jets rather than solely at their origin. The research, based on data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, necessitates a reassessment of how particle acceleration works in these jets and potentially the wider universe. The findings open the door to reimagining how particle acceleration works, and the paper spurs future work to come up with jet models that are consistent with what they found.