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[ABRIDGED] We study supermassive black hole binary mergers driven by angular momentum loss to small-scale gas discs. Such binaries form after major galaxy mergers, but their fate is unclear since hardening through stellar scattering becomes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-08 J. Cuadra , P. J. Armitage , R. D. Alexander , M. C. Begelman

We investigate time-dependent inviscid hydrodynamical accretion flows onto a black hole using numerical simulations. We consider the accretion that consists of hot tenuous gas with low specific angular momentum and cold dense gas with high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Koji Nobuta , Tomoyuki Hanawa

We present results from a comprehensive number of relativistic, time-dependent, axisymmetric simulations of the runaway instability of non-constant angular momentum thick discs around black holes. This second paper extends earlier results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Frederic Daigne , Jose A. Font

Numerical calculations of merging black hole binaries indicate that asymmetric emission of gravitational radiation can kick the merged black hole at up to thousands of km/s, and a number of systems have been observed recently whose…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Marcelo Ponce , Joshua A. Faber , James C. Lombardi

This paper studies the hydrodynamical problem of normal modes of small adiabatic oscillations of relativistic barotropic thin accretion disks around black holes (and compact weakly magnetic neutron stars). Employing WKB techniques, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Manuel Ortega-Rodriguez , Alexander S. Silbergleit , Robert V. Wagoner

We perform two-dimensional, axisymmetric, magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the collapse of a rotating star of 40 Msun and in the light of the collapsar model of gamma-ray burst. Considering two distributions of angular momentum, up to…

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

We investigate the accretion disk for a sort of regular black holes which are characterized by sub-Planckian curvature and Minkowskian core. We derive null geodesics outside the horizon of such regular black holes and analyze the feature of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-03 Wei Zeng , Yi Ling , Qing-Quan Jiang , Guo-Ping Li

We consider the effects of advection and radial gradients of pressure and radial drift velocity on the structure of accretion disks around black holes with proper description of optically thick/thin transitions. We concentrated our efforts…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu. V. Artemova , G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , I. V. Igumenshchev , I. D. Novikov

Accretion discs are common in binary systems, and they are often found to be misaligned with respect to the binary orbit. The gravitational torque from a companion induces nodal precession in misaligned disc orbits. We calculate whether…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Suzan Doğan , Chris Nixon , Andrew King , Daniel J. Price

In this Paper we consider twisted accretion disks in supermassive binary black hole by analytical and numerical means. It is assumed that the disk orbiting around the more massive rotating component and that the disk rings are inclined with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Viacheslav V. Zhuravlev , Pavel B. Ivanov

We develop a simple physical model to describe the most common type of low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) seen in a number of accreting black hole systems, as well as the shape of the relativistically broadened iron emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeremy D. Schnittman , Jeroen Homan , Jon M. Miller

Spin parameters of stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries are currently being estimated by fitting the X-ray continuum spectra of their accretion disk emission. For this method, it is necessary to know the inclination of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Li-Xin Li , Ramesh Narayan , Jeffrey E. McClintock

A brief summary of the properties of astrophysical black holes is presented. Various modes of accretion are distinguished, corresponding to accretion at rates from well below to well above the Eddington rate. The importance of mass loss is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roger. D. Blandford

We report on simulations in general relativity of magnetized disks onto black hole binaries. We vary the binary mass ratio from 1:1 to 1:10 and evolve the systems when they orbit near the binary-disk decoupling radius. We compare (surface)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Roman Gold , Vasileios Paschalidis , Zachariah B. Etienne , Stuart L. Shapiro , Harald P. Pfeiffer

Discerning the likelihood of the so-called runaway instability of thick accretion disks orbiting black holes is an important issue for most models of cosmic gamma-ray bursts. To this aim we investigate this phenomenon by means of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jose A. Font , Frederic Daigne

The structure and magnitude of the electromagnetic field produced by a rotating accretion disk around a black hole were determined. The disk matter is assumed to be a magnetized plasma with a frozenin poloidal magnetic field. The vacuum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. A. Shatskiy

By considering the steady-state Novikov-Thorne model, we study thin accretion disk processes for rotating hairy black holes in the framework of the Horndeski gravity. We obtain the electromagnetic properties of accretion disk around such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-17 Mohaddese Heydari-Fard , Malihe Heydari-Fard , Nematollah Riazi

In this paper we study the wind accretion onto a rotating black hole in the close binary system harboring a young massive star. It is shown that the angular momentum of the accreted stellar wind material is not sufficient for the formation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Maxim V. Barkov , Dmitry V. Khangulyan

Black hole binary transients undergo dramatic evolution in their X-ray timing and spectral behaviour during outbursts. In recent years a paradigm has arisen in which "soft" X-ray states are associated with an inner disc radius at, or very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Cabanac , R. P. Fender , R. J. H. Dunn , E. G. Koerding