This newly expanded and thoroughly updated third edition examines accretion as a source of energy in both binary star systems containing compact objects, and in active galactic nuclei. Assuming a ...
Truss, M. R. Wynn, G. A. Murray, J. R. and King, A. R. 2002. The origin of the rebrightening in soft X-ray transient outbursts. Monthly Notices of the Royal ...
During growth phases, SMBH are observed as active galactic nuclei (AGN); the SMBH grows by accreting interstellar gas ... As the dust absorbs UV/optical radiation from the accretion disk around the ...
These Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) can outshine all of the starlight ... allows us to probe the properties of the black hole itself. We numerically model the appearance of these systems in X-rays (see ...
The model they proposed is that the protons accelerated in the radio-emitting active galactic nuclei are actually interacting with the gas and matter in the accretion flow, which can extend far ...
An artist's rendering of what's called an active galactic nucleus at the center of NGC 4151. The galaxy's black hole sits at the center, immediately surrounded by an accretion disk shown in blue.
In some cases, these black holes are surrounded by matter they feed on, in the form of plate-like disks called accretion disks ... These luminous central galactic regions are called active ...
An artist's rendering of what's called an active galactic nucleus at the center of NGC 4151. The galaxy's black hole sits at the center, immediately surrounded by an accretion disk shown in blue.
An accretion disk surrounds the black hole ... That's what we see as the active galactic nucleus. A team of astronomers, led by Cambridge University professor Roberto Maiolino, used the JWST ...