AGN & jet activity — vortex reconnection at the SMBH
Every AGN class is the same physical event seen at different distances and Doppler factors: vortex reconnection within a few gravitational radii of the SMBH horizon. The size scale ∼rg/c comes for free from SVT, removing the need for ad-hoc sub-horizon emission zones.
Blazars (TeV minute-scale flares)
VALIDATEDObservation
Mrk 421, PKS 2155-304, Mrk 501, 3C 279 show tmin∼2−5min in TeV γ-rays; PSD slope −2.0±0.3.
SVT mechanism
Reconnection between vortex strands that thread the ergosphere. Coherence length kξrg sets the minimum timescale, Doppler factor δ contracts it to the observer.
Prediction
tobs=kξGMBH/(c3δ) matches all four blazars within a factor of 3 at kξ∼1.9; PSD slope −2 inherited from sim_16.
FR I vs FR II radio galaxies (jet morphology)
VALIDATEDObservation
Edge-darkened FR I (M 87, Cen A, 3C 31, NGC 4261, 3C 465) vs edge-brightened FR II hot-spot sources (Cyg A, 3C 295, 3C 175, 3C 273); empirical Owen–Ledlow break L1.4∝Lhost1.3.
SVT mechanism
A single dimensionless ratio PSVT=L1.4/(MBHc2) — the reconnection-driven jet-coherence Reynolds number. Above Pcrit the jet vortex column survives → FR II hot-spots; below it Kelvin-wave cascade decollimates the column → FR I lobes.
Prediction
logPcrit=−31.7 classifies all 9 benchmark galaxies (100 %), with a 2.04-dex gap between the two populations — one number, two morphologies.
GRB / collapsar central engine (analogous physics)
VALIDATEDObservation
Long GRBs: prompt-emission tvar∼ ms, intrinsic burst energies ∼1050–1053erg, beamed jet from a stellar-mass collapsar.
SVT mechanism
Same vortex-reconnection mechanism as blazars, scaled to a stellar-mass black hole. Power dissipation rate E˙∝Lvortex2/τrec tracks the observed isotropic-equivalent energies.
Prediction
tvar∝rg/c at stellar mass ⇒ ms variability; PSD slope −2 shared with blazars (sim_52) — a cross-scale prediction.