A self-shadowing black hole accretion disk at sub-Eddington luminosities
SMBH jets are driven by thick, hot accretion disks with powerful magnetic fields. But there's a bit of a paradox. Some SMBH produce jets, even though they appear to have thin, cold accretion disks. New research has solved this paradox, showing that disks can be truncated into an outer cold disk and…
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- Nature Official / wire · nature.com
- Universe Today Genre press · universetoday.comTwo Disks in One: How Accretion Disks Drive Black Hole Jets
- Universe Space Tech Genre press · via Google NewsDuring the outburst, the black hole's accretion disk cast a shadow on itself