Jets in Supermassive and Stellar-Mass Black Holes
arXiv:astro-ph/0302195 · doi:10.1142/9789812704009_0022
Abstract
Relativistic outflows are a common phenomenon in accreting black holes. Despite the enormous differences in scale, stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries and collapsars, and super-massive black holes at the dynamic centre of galaxies are sources of jets with analogous physical properties. Synergism between the research on microquasars, gamma-ray bursts, and Active Galactic Nuclei should help to gain insight into the physics of relativistic jets seen everywhere in the Universe.
Invited Review at the XXI Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics (Firenze 9-13 Dec. 2002). 8 pages, 2 figures