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We analyze the temporal evolution of accretion onto rotating black holes subject to large-scale magnetic torques. Wind torques alone drive a disk towards collapse in a finite time $\sim t_{ff} E_k/E_B$, where $t_{ff}$ is the initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten , Eve C. Ostriker

As progenitors of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), core collapse of massive stars and coalescence of compact object binaries are believed to be powerful sources of gravitational waves (GWs). In the collapsar scenario, a rotating stellar-mass black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 Yun-Feng Wei , Tong Liu

The radio emission mechanism in active galactic nuclei (AGN) with high accretion rates is unclear. It has been suggested that low-power jets may explain the observed radiation at sub-parsec scales. The mechanisms for jet formation at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-31 Pablo Sotomayor , Gustavo E. Romero

In this paper, we study Hawking radiation as a massless particles tunneling process across the event horizon from the Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes pierced by an infinitely long spinning cosmic string and a global…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-28 Kimet Jusufi

We demonstrate that ultra-relativistic black hole encounters reveal a new regime of the two-body interaction in general relativity. Evolving equal-mass, nonspinning black holes with initial center-of-mass Lorentz factors up to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-30 Hengrui Zhu , Frans Pretorius , James M. Stone

The thermal dominant state in black hole binaries (BHBs) is well understood but rarely seen in ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs). Using simultaneous observations of M82 with Chandra and XMM-Newton, we report the first likely identification…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-05-19 Hua Feng , Philip Kaaret

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are extra-galactic and extremely energetic transient emissions of gamma rays, which are thought to be associated with the death of massive stars or the merger of compact objects in binary systems. Their huge…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 F. Piron

Most black holes (BHs) formed in collapsing stars have low spin, though some are expected to acquire a magnetic accretion disk during the collapse. While such BH disks can launch magnetically driven winds, their physics and observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-11 Justin Bopp , Ore Gottlieb

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are the most powerful transient phenomena in the Universe. Nowadays dozens of speculations on the origin of GRB were undertaken, but so far a single model for the origin of, in particular, short GRBs does not exist.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-25 B. E. Zhilyaev , D. L. Dubinovska

We consider black holes generically sourced by quantum matter described by regular wavefunctions. This allows for integrable effective energy densities and the removal of Cauchy horizons in spherically symmetric configurations. Moreover, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-31 Roberto Casadio , Andrea Giusti , Jorge Ovalle

We study about ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) from transient sources, propagating in the Galactic and intergalactic space. Based on the recent observational results, we also estimate upper and lower bounds on the rate of transient…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-05 Kohta Murase , Hajime Takami

Usually alternative theories of gravity imply deviations from the well-known Kerr space-time, a model of an isolated black hole in General Relativity. In the dominant order, the deformed Kerr metric, free of closed time-like curves outside…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-06 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

Radiation from a narrow circular ring shows a characteristic double-horn profile dominated by photons having energy around the maximum or minimum of the allowed range, i.e. near the extremal values of the energy shift. The energy span of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-01 Vladimir Karas , Vjaceslav Sochora

Most elliptical galaxies contain central black holes (BHs), and most also contain significant amounts of hot gas capable of accreting on to the central BH due to cooling times short compared to the Hubble time. Why therefore do we not see…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 L. Ciotti , J. P. Ostriker

We present a new method for the calculation of black hole perturbations induced by extended sources in which the solution of the nonlinear hydrodynamics equations is coupled to a perturbative method based on Regge-Wheeler/Zerilli and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Valeria Ferrari , Leonardo Gualtieri , Luciano Rezzolla

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) often exhibit broad-line regions (BLRs), populated by high-velocity clouds in Keplerian orbits around the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) at subparsec scales. During episodes of intense super-Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-27 Gustavo E. Romero , Pablo Sotomayor

It has been thought for decades that rotating black holes (BHs) power the energetic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and active galactic nuclei (AGNs), but the mechanism that extracts the BH energy has remained elusive. We here show that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-17 J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini

Recent observation of Sagittarius A$^*$ (Sgr A$^*$) by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has uncovered various unanswered questions in black hole (BH) physics. Besides, it may also probe various beyond the Standard Model (BSM)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-10 Akash Kumar Saha , Priyank Parashari , Tarak Nath Maity , Abhishek Dubey , Subhadip Bouri , Ranjan Laha

Outflows produced by a supermassive black hole (SMBH) can have important feedback effects in its host galaxy. An unresolved question is the nature and properties of winds from SMBHs accreting at low rates in low-luminosity active galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-30 Ivan Almeida , Rodrigo Nemmen

A checklist of criteria is presented to help establish the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). These criteria are applied to long-duration GRBs in order to determine if they are UHECR sources. The evidence seems to favor…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Charles D. Dermer