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Viscous accretion and ejection from tori around black holes in general relativity

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2025-02-26 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We systematically perform long-term (millions of Schwarzschild time) axisymmetric viscous hydrodynamics simulations for tori around black holes in general relativity supposing the super Eddington accretion flow. The initial condition for the tori is modeled simply by the Fishbone-Moncrief torus with a constant specific angular momentum jj but with a wide variety of jj. We find that for a given density profile, the fraction of the mass infall onto the black hole is approximately proportional to j1j^{-1}, indicating that only a minor fraction of the matter in the torus formed far from the black hole falls into the black hole while the majority is ejected with the typical average velocity of a few percent of the speed of light. We also find that the mass ejection is driven only outside 2rISCO\approx 2\,r_\mathrm{ISCO} where rISCOr_\mathrm{ISCO} is the areal radius of the innermost stable circular orbit around black holes, which depends strongly on the black hole spin. We derive an approximate fitting formula for the spin-dependence on the mass infall fraction as rISCO0.7\propto r_\mathrm{ISCO}^{0.7}, which suggests that the rapid growth of supermassive black holes proceeded primarily by the accretion of the matter with the angular momentum counter-rotating with the black hole spin.

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@article{arxiv.2502.17566,
  title  = {Viscous accretion and ejection from tori around black holes in general relativity},
  author = {Masaru Shibata and Kyohei Kawaguchi and Alan Tsz-Lok Lam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.17566},
  year   = {2025}
}

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15 pages, 11 figures