AGN Jet Density 'Snapshots' (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

AGN Jet Density 'Snapshots'

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Side-by-side comparison of density "snapshots" produced in a 3-D simulation of jets beaming out from a black hole (at the base of images). Red shows higher density and blue shows lower density. The black directional lines show magnetic field streamlines. The perturbed magnetic lines reflect both the emergence of irregular magnetic fields in the jets and the large-scale deviations of the jets out of the image plane, both caused by the 3-D magnetic kink instability.

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Berkeley Lab, Purdue University

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