Jet formation in the magnetospheres of supermassive black holes: analytic solutions describing energy loss through Blandford-Znajek processes.

ABSTRACT In this paper, we provide exact solutions for the extraction of energy from a rotating black hole via both the electromagnetic Poynting flux and matter currents. By appropriate choice of a radially independent poloidal function Λ(θ), we find solutions where the dominant outward energy flux is along the polar axis, consistent not only with a jet-like collimated outflow, but also with a weaker flux of energy along the equatorial plane. Unlike previously obtained solutions, the magnetosphere is free of magnetic monopoles everywhere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]