Speaker
Alexander Tchekhovskoy
(Uiversity of California Berkeley)
Description
After reviewing the physics of jet formation by accreting black holes, I will present the results of recent 3D general relativistic magnetized fluid dynamics simulations and discuss the insights they give us into the disk-jet connection. I will finish by presenting the simulated spectra and images and the constraints on the near event horizon physics coming from the comparison to the observations of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
Author
Alexander Tchekhovskoy
(Uiversity of California Berkeley)
