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We discuss the problem of the formation of a large-scale magnetic field in the accretion disks around black holes, taking into account the nonuniform vertical structure of the disk. The high electrical conductivity of the outer layers of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-04-27 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , R. V. E. Lovelace

The presence of a strong, large-scale magnetic field in an accretion flow leads to extraction of the rotational energy of the black hole (BH) through the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) process, believed to power relativistic jets in various…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-28 Prasun Dhang , Jason Dexter , Mitchell C. Begelman

We investigate the generation of magnetic fields above black hole accretion discs due to the non-zero curl of the disc radiation field. By self consistently computing the components of the radiation flux and their curl, we show that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-16 Mukesh Kumar Vyas , Asaf Pe'er

A Kerr black hole (BH) surrounded by a neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF) is one of plausible candidates of the central engine in gamma-ray bursts. The accretion material might inherit and restructure strong magnetic fields from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-04 Jiao-Zhen She , Tong Liu , Li Xue

Black hole (BH) mergers are natural sources of gravitational waves (GWs) and are possibly associated with electromagnetic events. Such events from a charged rotating BH with an accretion on to it could be more energetic and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-27 Shad Ali

We discuss the problem of the formation of a large-scale magnetic field in the accretion disks around black holes, taking into account the non-uniform vertical structure of the disk. The high electrical conductivity of the outer layers of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-07 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , A. S. Klepnev , R. V. E. Lovelace

Screw instability of the magnetic field connecting a rotating black hole (BH) with its surrounding disk is discussed based on the model of the coexistence of the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) process and the magnetic coupling (MC) process (CEBZMC).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. X. Wang , R. Y. Ma , W. H. Lei , G. Z. Yao

We construct a simple model for stationary, axisymmetric black-hole magnetospheres, in which the poloidal magnetic field is generated by a toroidal electric current in a thin disk with the inner edge, by solving the vacuum Maxwell equations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Akira Tomimatsu , Masaaki Takahashi

We study the small scale magnetic reconnection above the radiative inefficient accretion flow around massive black hole via 2D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) numerical simulation, in order to model the blob formation and ejection from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-22 Tian-Le Zhao , Ye-Fei Yuan , Rajiv Kumar

Large-scale magnetic fields in the nuclear regions of protogalaxies can promote the formation and early growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) by direct collapse and magnetically boosted accretion. Turbulence associated with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-06 Mitchell C. Begelman , Joseph Silk

We reconsider the problem of the formation of a large-scale magnetic field in the accretion disks around black holes. In contrast with previous work we take into account the nonuniform vertical structure of the disk. The high electrical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , R. V. E. Lovelace

We discuss the importance of large scale strong magnetic field in the removal of angular momentum outward, as well as the possible origin of different kinds of magnetic barrier in advective, geometrically thick, sub-Keplerian accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Tushar Mondal , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We construct a model for stationary and axisymmetric black hole magnetospheres by solving the vacuum Maxwell equations in Kerr backgrounds. The poloidal magnetic field is generated by a toroidal electric current in a thin disk on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-07 Yota Endo , Hideki Ishihara , Masaaki Takahashi

A tight correlation between the radio and X-ray emission in the hard state of black hole X-ray binaries (BHXRBs) indicates an intrinsic disc-jet connection in stellar black hole accretion systems, though the detailed physics processes at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-21 Yiheng Jiang , Shanshan Li , Xinwu Cao , Bei You , Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Saien Xu

I review our current theoretical understanding of the different possible rotating modes of accretion onto a black hole. I discuss both thick adiabatic flows and radiatively efficient thin disc solutions. I present a new self-consistent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Merloni

In this proceeding, we provide a novel approach to study the General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) accretion flows around rotating black holes (BHs). In doing so, we choose a sub-Keplerian distribution of angular momentum of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-11 Samik Mitra

We have performed a series of numerical experiments aimed at studying the activation of Kerr black holes (BHs) by advection of small scale magnetic fields. Such configurations may potentially give rise to the formation of quasi-striped…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-15 Anna Chashkina , Omer Bromberg , Amir Levinson

A magnetic model for low/hard state (LHS) of black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs),H1743-322 and GX 339-4, is proposed based on the transportation of magnetic field from a companion into an accretion disk around a black hole (BH). This model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Yong-Chun Ye , Ding-Xiong Wang , Chang-Yin Huang , Xiao-Feng Cao

Magnetic fields play a central role in black hole astrophysics, powering relativistic jets and other energetic phenomena. While near-horizon magnetic field is usually assumed to originate from the accretion flow, additional large-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-29 Madina Zhakipova , Arman Tursunov , Saken Toktarbay , Martin Kološ

As a complementary or companion process to the Blandford-Znajek mechanism for the rotational energy extraction from a Kerr black hole to serve as a viable model for the central engine of quasar, AGN and even GRB, the magnetic alignment…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hongsu Kim , Hyun Kyu Lee , Chul H. Lee