QUASAR / AGN SIMULATION

▸ Locating the supermassive black hole at the center…
▸ Building the accretion disk & dusty torus
▸ Launching the relativistic plasma jet
▸ Computing luminosity from the Eddington limit
▸ Calibrating the unified model…
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Simulation room Quasar & Galactic Nucleus

Quasar / AGN
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supermassive black hole · unified
Luminosity gauge
⚛️ How bright?
☀ Sun → 🌌 whole galaxy
Type (viewing angle)—
Black hole—
Accretion rate—
Viewing angle—
Luminosity—
Jet power—
Note
The same black hole — viewed from different angles, we call it by different names (the unified model).
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Left mouse = rotate · right mouse = pan · wheel = zoom · click BLACK HOLE = details · drag the VIEWING ANGLE in the right column
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Accretion-disk brightness flicker over time (AGN variability) disk brightness