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Ronadeep Dastidar

PhD candidate in Theoretical Astrophysics at Purdue University specializing in relativistic jets and gamma-ray burst afterglows

Jul 1, 2026

39:38
Sorry, and now you can continue [laughs] what you were gonna say.
39:40
Yeah, yeah, it's all right.
39:40
No, that's, that's a bit of a, yeah, that's a more pictorial description.
39:42
So that's what exactly happens.
39:43
These materials or debris start going around these compact objects, a neutron star or black hole.
39:49
Then they take these materials in, and due to their elec- magnetic fields and their motion, rotating motion, they get launched from both the ends, the top and the bottom, in a very narrow region, and that's what gives rise to the jets.
40:01
Now, the processes that convert these accreting material into narrow jets is called the Blandford–Znajek, and there are a few, a couple more theories out there how that happens.

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51:35
Mm-hmm

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