Abstract

The space-time distortion caused by supermassive black holes provides a unique laboratory for violent physical processes like stellar tidal disruption, highly relativistic jets, and turbulent accretion flows. Synthesizing observations across many wavelengths and studying their time variability at slow and rapid timescales promises a new, dynamic, thorough understanding of how black holes form and grow, how they consume material, how they construct powerful relativistic jets, and how they bend the evolution of galaxies to a path that matches our observations of the Universe. I will discuss how both high-resolution radio imaging surveys of outflows and star formation and timing observations with breakthrough instruments like the NICER instrument on the ISS and the TESS exoplanet-hunting missions have provided new intersectional insights and promise a fertile new temporal phase space for exploring the detailed phenomenology and cosmological implications of active galactic nuclei. In my talk, I will discuss results from a 22 GHz radio imaging survey of hundreds of BAT AGN and implications for both the origin of radio emission their cores and AGN feedback on galaxy-wide scales. I will also discuss time domain investigations of accretion and jets with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.