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We revisit the suggestion that dual jets can be produced during the inspiral and merger of supermassive black holes when these are immersed in a force-free plasma threaded by a uniform magnetic field. By performing independent calculations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Philipp Moesta , Daniela Alic , Luciano Rezzolla , Olindo Zanotti , Carlos Palenzuela

We explore the thermodynamic and optical properties of Einstein-Dyonic-ModMax (EDM) black holes (BHs), incorporating quantum gravity corrections and plasma effects. The ModMax theory promotes the classical Maxwell theory to a non-linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Erdem Sucu , Suat Dengiz , İzzet Sakallı

Black hole radiation from an infinitesimally thin massive collapsing shell, possessing a global monopole charge, which in turn leads to a Schwarzschild black hole with a global monopole charge has been shown to be processed by a unitary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-27 Arpit Das , Narayan Banerjee

Merging binary black holes embedded in gaseous environments, such as supermassive black hole binaries following gas-rich galaxy mergers, are promising sources of multi-messenger transients in the upcoming age of space-based gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-30 Yoonsoo Kim , Elias R. Most , Hai-Yang Wang

The spectral amplitude of the merger-ringdown gravitational wave (GW) emitted by a comparable mass-ratio black hole merger is modeled by the greybody factor of the remnant black hole. We also include the post-Newtonian correction to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-31 Kazumasa Okabayashi , Naritaka Oshita

Some active galactic nuclei, microquasars, and gamma ray bursts may be powered by the electromagnetic braking of a rapidly rotating black hole. We investigate this possibility via axisymmetric numerical simulations of a black hole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan C. McKinney , Charles F. Gammie

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHs) are a fascinating byproduct of galaxy mergers in the hierarchical universe. In the last stage of their orbital evolution, gravitational wave radiation drives the binary inspiral and produces the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-28 Ning Jiang , Huan Yang , Tinggui Wang , Jiazheng Zhu , Zhenwei Lyu , Liming Dou , Yibo Wang , Jianguo Wang , Zhen Pan , Hui Liu , Xinwen Shu , Zhenya Zheng

During the final moments of a binary black hole (BH) merger, the gravitational wave (GW) luminosity of the system is greater than the combined electromagnetic output of the entire observable universe. However, the extremely weak coupling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Jeremy D. Schnittman

According to recent general-relativistic simulations, the coalescence of two spinning black holes (BHs) could lead to recoil speeds of the BH remnant of up to thousands of km/s as a result of the emission of gravitational radiation. Such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Abraham Loeb

At least three members of the recently identified class of fast luminous blue optical transient show evidence of late-time electromagnetic activity in great excess of what predicted by an extrapolation of the early time emission. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-21 Davide Lazzati , Rosalba Perna , Taeho Ryu , Katelyn Breivik

We study the spectral properties of a very general class of accretion disks which can be decomposed into three distinct components apart from a shock at $r=r_s$: (1) An optically thick Keplerian disk on the equatorial plane ($r>r_s$), (2) A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Sandip K. Chakrabarti , Lev G. Titarchuk

We perform radiative transfer simulations for kilonova in various situations, including the cases of prompt collapse to a black hole from neutron-star mergers, high-velocity ejecta possibly accelerated by magnetars, and a black hole-neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 Kyohei Kawaguchi , Masaru Shibata , Masaomi Tanaka

Bremsstrahlung emission of photons during nuclear reactions inside dense stellar medium is investigated in the paper. For that, a new model of nucleus is developed, where nuclear forces combine nucleons as bound system in dependence on deep…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-23 Sergei P. Maydanyuk , Kostiantyn A. Shaulskyi

Highly spinning Kerr black holes with masses $M = 1 - 100\ M_{\odot}$ are subject to an efficient superradiant instability in the presence of bosons with masses $\mu \sim 10^{-10} - 10^{-12}\ {\rm eV}$. We observe that this matches the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-20 Joseph P. Conlon , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro

Motivated by the picture of a thin accretion disc around a black hole, radiating mainly in the direction perpendicular to its plane, we study the motion of test particles interacting with a test geodesic radiation flux originating in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-19 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico , Robert T. Jantzen , Oldrich Semerak

Massive merging black holes will be the primary sources of powerful gravitational waves at low frequency, and will permit to test general relativity with candidate galaxies close to a binary black hole merger. In this paper we identify the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 László Á. Gergely , Peter L. Biermann

We present preliminary results from self-consistent, high resolution direct {\it N}-body simulations of massive black hole binaries in mergers of galactic nuclei. The dynamics of the black hole binary includes the full Post-Newtonian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 Miguel Preto , Ingo Berentzen , Peter Berczik , David Merritt , Rainer Spurzem

We investigate electromagnetic and gravitational radiation generated during the process of the tidal stripping of a white dwarf star circulating a black hole. We go beyond Chandrasekhar's ideas and not only consider a white dwarf itself as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-10 Marek Nikołajuk , Tomasz Karpiuk , Lorenzo Ducci , Mirosław Brewczyk

We examine the efficiency of gravitational bremsstrahlung production in the process of head-on collision of two boosted Schwarzschild black holes. We constructed initial data for the characteristic initial value problem in Robinson-Trautman…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-11 R. F. Aranha , H. P. de Oliveira , I. Damião Soares , E. V. Tonini

We consider the bremsstrahlung surface photon emissivity of strange quark stars, by sistematically taking into account the effects of the multiple scatterings of the highly relativistic quarks in a dense medium (the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. S. Cheng , T. Harko