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We study the relativistic, inviscid, advective accretion flow around the black holes and investigate a key feature of the accretion flow, namely the shock waves. We observe that the shock-induced accretion solutions are prevalent and such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-01 Santabrata Das , Anuj Nandi , C. S. Stalin , Suvendu Rakshit , Indu Kalpa Dihingia , Swapnil Singh , Ramiz Aktar , Samik Mitra

Stationary and axisymmetric ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) accretion onto a black hole is studied analytically. The accreting plasma ejected from a plasma source with low velocity must be super-fast magnetosonic before passing through the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masaaki Takahashi , Akira Tomimatsu

Waves launched from the neutron star surface or inner magnetosphere propagate through the magnetosphere as small perturbations, but can grow relative to the background magnetic field and steepen into ``monster shocks'' -- ultra-relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 Michael P. Grehan , Bart Ripperda , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Christopher Thompson , Elias R. Most

According to the traditional scenario for core-collapse supernovae, the core of the collapsing star forms a neutron star and its gravitational energy release sends out a shockwave into the stellar envelope. However, in a significant number…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-14 En-Hao Feng , Rong-Feng Shen , Wei-Peng Lin

A brief summary is given of an alternative interpretation of the Event Horizon Telescope observations of the massive black hole in the nucleus of the nearby galaxy M87. It is proposed that the flow is primarily powered by the black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-14 Roger Blandford , Noemie Globus

The 6 billion solar mass supermassive black hole at the center of the giant elliptical galaxy M87 powers a relativistic jet. Observations at millimeter wavelengths with the Event Horizon Telescope have localized the emission from the base…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Avery E. Broderick , Ramesh Narayan , John Kormendy , Eric S. Perlman , Marcia J. Rieke , Sheperd S. Doeleman

The high-energy particle production in the accretion flow onto black holes can be a key physics to explain the high-energy neutrino background. While the single-zone approximation has been commonly adopted in studies of the high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-15 Tomohisa Kawashima , Katsuaki Asano

This Letter investigates the physics that is responsible for creating the current system that supports the outgoing Poynting flux emanating from the ergosphere of a rotating black hole in the limit that the magnetic energy density greatly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Brian Punsly

A spinning black hole accreting from a disk of strongly magnetized plasma via a magnetically arrested disk is known to produce an efficient electromagnetic jet powered by the black hole's spin energy. We present general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-11 Angelo Ricarte , Ramesh Narayan , Brandon Curd

Recent observations have revealed a unique class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), termed little red dots (LRDs). These objects are hypothesized to be powered by massive black holes rapidly accreting in dense gaseous environments.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-22 Shinsuke Takasao , Kohei Inayoshi

An analytical expression for the disc power is derived based on an equivalent circuit in black hole (BH) magnetosphere with a mapping relation between the radial coordinate of the disc and that of unknown astrophysical load. It turns out…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao-Long Gong Ding-Xiong Wang , Yong-Chun Ye

The general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamical (GRMHD) formulation for black hole-powered jets naturally gives rise to a stagnation surface, wherefrom inflows and outflows along magnetic field lines that thread the black hole event horizon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 Hung-Yi Pu , Kinwah Wu , Ziri Younsi , Keiichi Asada , Yosuke Mizuno , Masanori Nakamura

Magnetic reconnection is thought to be one of the main energy-dissipation mechanisms fueling energy to the plasma in the vicinity of a black hole. Indeed, plasmoids formed through magnetic reconnection may play a key role in $\gamma$-ray,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-01 Antonios Nathanail , Vasilis Mpisketzis , Oliver Porth , Christian M. Fromm , Luciano Rezzolla

Context: Accreting black holes (BHs) may be surrounded by a highly magnetized plasma threaded by a poloidal magnetic field. Non-thermal flares and high energy components could originate from a hot, collisionless and nearly force-free…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-27 I. El Mellah , B. Cerutti , B. Crinquand , K. Parfrey

We investigate the dynamical structure of advective accretion flow around stationary as well as rotating black holes. For a suitable choice of input parameters, such as, accretion rate ($\dot {\cal M}$) and angular momentum ($\lambda$),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Santabrata Das , Sandip K. Chakrabarti , Soumen Mondal

Rotating black holes are the most powerful source of energy in the known universe, and are the cause of some of the most spectacular and extreme astronomical phenomena. The goal of this article is to analyze in simple terms the physics of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-17 Jorge Pinochet

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

We present results from axisymmetric, time-dependent hydrodynamical (HD) and magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of a gaseous envelope collapsing onto a black hole (BH). We consider gas with so small angular momentum that after an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel Proga

A selection of results from the general relativistic MHD accretion simulations described in the previous talk are presented. We find that the magnetic field strength increases sharply with decreasing radius and is also enhanced near…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. H. Krolik , S. Hirose

Combined influence of rotation of a black hole and ambient magnetic fields creates conditions for powerful astrophysical processes of accretion and outflow of matter which are observed in many systems across the range of masses; from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-26 Ondrej Kopacek , Vladimir Karas