Keynote Presentation

Relativistic Jets from Accreting Black Holes

Author(s): Ramesh Narayan (Harvard University)

Presenter: Ramesh Narayan (Harvard University)

The AGN in M87 is a perfect example of a hot, radiatively inefficient accretion flow with a relativistic jet. The talk will briefly review observations of the jet and will place M87 within the larger context of different kinds of AGN and different modes of accretion. Current understanding of the physics of jet production, acceleration and collimation will be summarized, with an emphasis on lessons learned from numerical simulations. Finally, radiation processes in the inner jet will be briefly discussed.