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Blandford-Znajek Process
    

A theoretical method of producing jets in radio galaxies by threading the horizon of a black hole surrounded by an accretion disk with magnetic fields. As the black hole spins, it drag the field lines around and causes them to eject plasma in two opposite jets around the rotation axis, extraction rotational energy (Thorne 1994, p. 350).

Accretion Disk, Black Hole




References

Thorne, K. S. Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy. New York: W. W. Norton, 1994.

Thorne, K. S.; Price, R. H.; and MacDonald, D. A. (Eds.). Black Holes: The Membrane Paradigm. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, pp. 5 and 10, 1986.







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