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The inflow of matter onto astronomical objects is connected to the generation of outflows throughout the Universe on a variety of scales, from proto-planetary disks, to merging neutron star systems and gamma ray bursts, to stellar mass and supermassive black holes.
The matter inflow/outflow processes scale predictably with mass, and proceeds according to the same basic principles around all collapsed objects, slower around supermassive black holes and much faster near stellar mass compact objects.
Low-mass X-ray binaries hosting either stellar mass black holes or neutron stars are the most common type of transient in the Galaxy, and constitute ideal laboratories where to study the accretion/jet connection at work in real time.
I will focus on black hole X-ray binaries, and I will give an overview on accretion states and how they are associated with jets. I will review some of the most important science that has been done recently, especially with the MeerKAT telescope, precursor of the SKA.
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