most citedPowerful extragalactic jets dissipate their kinetic energy far from the central black hole

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Powerful extragalactic jets dissipate their kinetic energy far from the central black hole

Adam Leah W. Harvey, Markos Georganopoulos, Eileen T. Meyer

Accretion onto the supermassive black hole in some active galactic nuclei (AGN) drives relativistic jets of plasma, which dissipate a significant fraction of their kinetic energy i…