Abstract

The radio jets ejected from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) sometimes show proper motions with apparent velocity exceeding the speed of light. This phenomenon, called superluminal motion, is explained as relativistic jets propagating in a direction almost toward us, and has been thought to be ejected from the close vicinity of hypothetical supermassive black holes powering AGNs (Rees 1996). The magnetic mechanism has been proposed not only for AGN jets (Lovelace 1976; Blandford & Payne 1983) but also for protostellar jets (Pudritz & Norman 1986; Uchida & Shibata 1985; Shibata & Uchida 1986), although no one has yet performed nonsteady general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) numerical simulations on the formation of jets from the accretion disk around a black hole.

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