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We report on the fourth phase of our study of slightly rotating accretion flows onto black holes. The main new element of this study is that we used fully three dimensional (3-D) numerical simulations. We consider hydrodynamics of inviscid…

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The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way, Sgr A*, displays a nearly flat radio spectrum that is typical for jets in active galactic nuclei. Indeed, time-dependent magnetized models of radiatively inefficient accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Moscibrodzka , H Falcke

In this paper we report on recent upgrades to our general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics code, Cosmos++, including the development of a new primitive inversion scheme and a hybrid implicit-explicit solver with a more general…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 P. Chris Fragile , Ally Olejar , Peter Anninos

We study time evolution of sub-Keplerian transonic accretion flows onto black holes using a general relativistic numerical simulation code. We perform simulations around the black holes having non-zero rotation. We first compare…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 Jinho Kim , Sudip K. Garain , Sandip K. Chakrabarti , Dinshaw S. Balsara

In the course of its evolution, a black hole (BH) accretes gas from a wide range of directions. Given a random accretion event, the typical angular momentum of an accretion disc would be tilted by $\sim$60$^\circ$ relative to the BH spin.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-17 M. Liska , C. Hesp , A. Tchekhovskoy , A. Ingram , M. van der Klis , S. B. Markoff

Depending on the astrophysical source and its environment, the accretion flows can exhibit a variety of behaviors and characteristics in accordance with the type of solutions. We study low-angular-momentum accretion flows onto black holes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-01 Indu K. Dihingia , Akhil Uniyal , Yosuke Mizuno

General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulations are an indispensable tool in studying accretion onto compact objects. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) frequently uses libraries of ideal GRMHD simulations to interpret…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-27 Vedant Dhruv , Ben Prather , George Wong , Charles F. Gammie

We present a suite of the first 3D GRMHD collapsar simulations, which extend from the self-consistent jet launching by an accreting Kerr black hole (BH) to the breakout from the star. We identify three types of outflows, depending on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-12 Ore Gottlieb , Aretaios Lalakos , Omer Bromberg , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

We perform a set of general relativistic, radiative, magneto-hydrodynamical simulations (GR-RMHD) to study the transition from radiatively inefficient to efficient state of accretion on a non-rotating black hole. We study ion to electron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 A. Sadowski , M. Gaspari

We consider rotating Primordial black holes (PBHs) and study the effect of accretion of radiation in the radiation dominated era. The central part of our analysis deals with the role of the angular momentum parameter on the evolution of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-07 Swapna Mahapatra , Bibekananda Nayak

We model non-thermal emission spectrum of the extremely sub-Eddington X-ray binary system A0620-00. It is believed that this non-thermal emission is produced by a radiatively inefficient "quiescent" accretion onto a stellar-mass black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Monika Moscibrodzka

Black holes accreting well below the Eddington rate are believed to have geometrically thick, optically thin, rotationally supported accretion discs in which the Coulomb mean free path is large compared to $GM/c^2$. In such an environment,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-25 Francois Foucart , Mani Chandra , Charles F. Gammie , Eliot Quataert

We investigate the shadow, timelike geodesic structure, radiation properties of thin accretion disks, and optical appearance of a static spherically symmetric regular black hole, constructed based on the Dehnen-type density profile. Using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Tianyou Ren , Jing-Ya Zhao , Xiaomei Liu , Rong-Jia Yang

In paper I, we showed that time-dependent general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) numerical models of accretion disks, although being highly turbulent, have surprisingly simple electromagnetic properties. In particular, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan C. McKinney , Ramesh Narayan

In the vicinity of black holes, the influence of strong gravity, plasma physics, and emission processes govern the behavior of the system. Since observations such as those carried out by the EHT are not yet able to unambiguously constrain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-22 Jan Röder , Alejandro Cruz-Osorio , Christian M. Fromm , Yosuke Mizuno , Ziri Younsi , Luciano Rezzolla

Using axisymetric general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulations we study evolution of accretion torus around black hole endowed with different initial magnetic field configurations. Due to accretion of material onto black hole,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-17 Martin Kološ , Agnieszka Janiuk

As the title suggests, the purpose of this chapter is to review the current status of numerical simulations of black hole accretion disks. This chapter focuses exclusively on global simulations of the accretion process within a few tens of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 P. Chris Fragile

On the basis of data from an energy-conserving 3D general relativistic MHD simulation, we predict the statistical character of variability in the coronal luminosity from accreting black holes. When the inner boundary of the corona is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-28 Scott C. Noble , Julian H. Krolik

The radiative properties of the accretion disks around rotating short-hairy black holes are studied. The geodesic motion of massive particles in the equatorial planes of short-hairy black holes and impact of the rotation parameter $a$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Shou-Qi Liu , Jia-Hui Huang

Astrophysical plasmas in relativistic spacetimes, such as black hole accretion flows, are often weakly collisional and require kinetic modeling to capture non-local transport and particle acceleration. However, the extreme scale separation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Tyler Trent , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Özel