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Dynamo model of double radio sources

NaturePublished 1 August 1976
R. V. E. Lovelace
Citations521
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score18.29
SNIP10.16

Abstract

A model of radio sources is proposed in which the magnetised accretion disk of a massive black hole acts as an electric dynamo producing two oppositely-directed beams of ultra-relativistic particles.

Keywords

Physics and Astronomy