Superwinds in Accreting Black Hole Binaries
Joseph Neilsen
Fri Jan 20, 02:30-03:30pm, Marlar: 37-252
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Although black holes are often thought of as cosmic vacuum cleaners, consuming everything nearby (even light), the feeding process for astrophysical black holes is much more complicated. Accretion releases prodigious quantities of energy, which can actually drive infalling gas away from the black hole, sometimes in the form of relativistic jets, and sometimes as winds that may carry away the equivalent of 1/3 of the mass of the moon per day! I will discuss how we observe this surprising behavior, and what it tells us about black hole astrophysics.
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Sponsor: Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research
Latest update: 09-Dec-2011
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