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We present a numerical method which evolves a two-temperature, magnetized, radiative, accretion flow around a black hole, within the framework of general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics. As implemented in the code KORAL, the gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 A. Sadowski , M. Wielgus , R. Narayan , D. Abarca , J. C. McKinney , A. Chael

We present a comprehensive analysis of super-Eddington black hole accretion simulations that solve the GRMHD equations coupled with angle-discretized radiation transport. The simulations span a range of accretion rates, two black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-09 Lizhong Zhang , James M. Stone , Christopher J. White , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang , Patrick D. Mullen

(Abridged) We here continue our effort to model the behaviour of matter when orbiting or accreting onto a generic black hole by developing a new numerical code employing advanced techniques geared solve the equations of in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 Zakaria Meliani , Yosuke Mizuno , Hector Olivares , Oliver Porth , Luciano Rezzolla , Ziri Younsi

We present general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) numerical simulations of the accretion flow around the supermassive black hole in the Galactic centre, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). The simulations include for the first time radiative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Salomé Dibi , Samia Drappeau , P. Chris Fragile , Sera Markoff , Jason Dexter

Black hole (BH) X-ray binaries cycle through different spectral states of accretion over the course of months to years. Although fluctuations in the BH mass accretion rate are generally recognized as the most important component of state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-28 M. T. P. Liska , N. Kaaz , K. Chatterjee , Razieh Emami , Gibwa Musoke

Black hole based tests of general relativity have proliferated in recent times with new and improved detectors and telescopes. Modelling of the black hole neighborhood, where most of the radiation carrying strong-field signature originates,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Sourabh Nampalliwar , Aristomenis I. Yfantis , Kostas D. Kokkotas

Turbulent magnetic diffusivity plays an important role for accretion disks and the launching of disk winds. We have implemented magnetic diffusivity, respective resistivity in the general relativistic MHD code HARM. This paper describes the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-04 Qian Qian , Christian Fendt , Scott Noble , Matteo Bugli

A new general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamical code KORAL, is described, which employs the M1 scheme to close the radiation moment equations. The code has been successfully verified against a number of tests. Axisymmetric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 A. Sadowski , R. Narayan , J. C. McKinney , A. Tchekhovskoy

Numerical simulation of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence makes it possible to study accretion dynamics in detail. However, special effort is required to connect inflow dynamics (dependent largely on angular momentum transport) to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Scott C. Noble , Julian H. Krolik , John F. Hawley

We study the effect of radiative feedback on accretion onto intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) using the hydrodynamical code ZEUS-MP with a radiative transfer algorithm. In this paper, the first of a series, we assume accretion from a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 KwangHo Park , Massimo Ricotti

The classical, relativistic thin-disk theory of Novikov and Thorne (NT) predicts a maximum accretion efficiency of 40% for an optically thick, radiatively efficient accretion disk around a maximally spinning black hole (BH). However, when a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-30 Danilo Morales Teixeira , Mark J. Avara , Jonathan C. McKinney

Kerr black hole (BH) superradiance can form gravitational atoms and produce characteristic gravitational-wave signals, providing a probe of ultralight bosons and dark matter. In realistic systems, accretion-disk gravity can shift energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-06 Ruiheng Li , Zhong-hao Luo , Zehong Wang , Fa Peng Huang

We present a ``cyclic zoom'' method to capture the dynamics of accretion flows onto black holes across a vast range of spatial and temporal scales in general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations. In this method, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Minghao Guo , James M. Stone , Eliot Quataert , Volker Springel

We prescribe a method to study the effects of self-gravity of accretion disk around a black hole associated with long Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) in an evolving background Kerr metric. This is an extension to our previous work where we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-02 Ishika Palit , Agnieszka Janiuk , Petra Sukova

We summarize results from a survey of radiation-dominated black hole accretion flows across a wide range of mass accretion rates, as well as two values of black hole spin and initial magnetic field geometry. These models apply an algorithm…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Lizhong Zhang , James M. Stone , Patrick D. Mullen , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang , Christopher J. White

I outline the theory of accretion onto black holes, and its application to observed phenomena such as X-ray binaries, active galactic nuclei, tidal disruption events, and gamma-ray bursts. The dynamics as well as radiative signatures of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-31 Mitchell C. Begelman

The episodic dynamics of the magnetic eruption of a spinning black hole (BH) accretion disks and its associated intense shapeup of their jets is studied via three-dimensional general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD). The embedded…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-16 Akira Mizuta , Toshikazu Ebisuzaki , Toshiki Tajima , Shigehiro Nagataki

We use the public code ebhlight to carry out 3D radiative general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulations of accretion onto the supermassive black hole in M87. The simulations self-consistently evolve a frequency-dependent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 Philippe Z. Yao , Jason Dexter , Alexander Y. Chen , Benjamin R. Ryan , George N. Wong

Using high-resolution general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations, we investigate accretion flows around spinning black holes and identify three distinct accretion states. Our results suggest the origin of the complex…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Rohan Raha , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Koushik Chatterjee

We model the structure and evolution of black hole accretion disks, and their neighboring regions, using numerical simulations. The numerics is governed by the equations of general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics (GRMHD). In particular,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-25 Agnieszka Janiuk , Kostas Sapountzis , Jeremy Mortier , Ireneusz Janiuk