© CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1991

BEAMS AND JETS IN ASTROPHYSICS Edited by Philip A. Hughes

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Table of Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• CENTRAL ENGINE MODELS
• Why Supermassive Black Holes?
• Hydrodynamic Beam Production
• Magnetohydrodynamical Models
• OBSERVATIONS OF JETS ON EXTREMELY SMALL SCALES
• Better Evidence for Black Holes
• Direct Evidence Concerning Extremely Small Objects
• Interactions Between Jets and the Ambient Nuclear Medium
• CONCLUSIONS
• REFERENCES

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