Magnetic Hair and Reconnection in Black Hole Magnetospheres
Bransgrove, Ashley, Bart Ripperda, and Alexander Philippov, Magnetic Hair and Reconnection in Black Hole Magnetospheres, Phys. Rev. Lett., 127, 055101 (2021) (ADS)
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It had to happen: our favorite cartoon topic of field lines
reconnecting, seen or
imagined in many various
forms around the Earth, the Sun, planets, stars, and compact objects,
also shows up here in black hole environments.
Black holes are seldom mentioned in this Archive, of course, but see
some context here, for example.
Around a black hole the plasma environment must be incredibly
different, not to say probably incredibly ill-understood as well.
It had to happen: our favorite cartoon topic of field lines reconnecting, seen or imagined in many various forms around the Earth, the Sun, planets, stars, and compact objects, also shows up here in black hole environments. Black holes are seldom mentioned in this Archive, of course, but see some context here, for example. Around a black hole the plasma environment must be incredibly different, not to say probably incredibly ill-understood as well.