What happens when an astrophysical jet moving at enormous speeds plows into the gas and dust around it? Some of that matter gets dragged along for the ride — and according to this author, this process could create the two different types of jets that we see.
The authors present the first direct evidence of a jet shaping the circumstellar envelope of a post-AGB star.
Do all tidal disruption events produce jets? This paper tests the hypothesis that they do!
Astronomers detect a jet break in the X-ray afterglow of short GRB 111020A.
How do you measure a black hole’s rotation? Jets might be the answer!
We think that blazars and gamma-ray bursts are both powered by extremely relativistic jets — but how is the kinetic energy of these jets transformed into the staggering amounts of radiation we observe?