Strong magnetic fields, galaxy formation, and the galactic engine
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Description
It is generally believed that large-scale radio structures, double lobes, jets, etc., are powered by activity in galactic nuclei and that the ultimate source of the energy in quasars, BL Lac objects, and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is gravitational collapse. However, more than 25 years since large redshifts in quasars were dissolved, there is no generally accepted model for the fantastically powerful central engine at the core of AGNs and quasars. It is generally agreed that the central core involves a large concentrated mass,probably a black hole, accreting material from its surroundings. This paper discusses how natural processes in the gravitational collapse of a pregalactic gas cloud with a toroidal volume electric current will lead to the formation of a gravitationally bound current loop (GBCL) that can last for far longer than the age of the universe in the core of the galaxy or quasar
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Publishing Information
- Publisher
- The New York Academy of Sciences.
- Imprint Place
- New York, NY (USA)
- ISBN
- 0-89766-526-0
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the fourteenth Texas symposium on relativistic astrophysics
- Imprint Pagination
- 698 p.
- Series
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 239-246.
Conference
- Title
- 14. Texas symposium on relativistic astrophysics.
- Dates
- 11-16 Dec 1988.
- Place
- Dallas, TX (USA).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 22001350
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCELERATION; ACCRETION DISKS; BLACK HOLES; COSMIC DUST; GALACTIC EVOLUTION; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; KINETIC ENERGY; MHD EQUILIBRIUM; ORIGIN; PARTICLES; QUASARS; RADIO GALAXIES; TURBULENT FLOW
- Descriptors DEC
- COSMIC RADIO SOURCES; DUSTS; ENERGY; EQUILIBRIUM; FLUID FLOW; GALAXIES; MAGNETIC FIELDS
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-881268--.