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We consider an irrotational plasma fluid evolving under the effect of a background magnetic field. The magnetohydrodynamic formalism is used to describe the electromagnetic waves and the dynamics is described by a scalar field that follows…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-15 Felipe A. Asenjo , Nelson Zamorano

The inward flow of matter through accretion disks is driven by MHD turbulence. Global general relativistic MHD simulations shed quantitative light on this process, revealing a number of aspects of accretion previously unrecognized. Among…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. H. Krolik , J. F. Hawley

We present the critical conditions for hot trans-fast magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) flows in a stationary and axisymmetric black-hole magnetosphere. To accrete onto the black hole, the MHD flow injected from a plasma source with low velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masaaki Takahashi

We study the spherical accretion of magnetized plasma with low angular momentum onto a supermassive black hole, utilizing global general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations. Black hole-driven feedback in the form of magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-10 Alisa Galishnikova , Alexander Philippov , Eliot Quataert , Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska

In this work we would like to address the issue of shock formation in black hole accretion discs. We provide a {\it generalized two parameter solution scheme} for multi-transonic, accretion and wind around Schwarzschild black holes, by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Tapas Kumar Das , Jayant K. Pendharkar , Sanjit Mitra

Using long-duration general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of radiatively inefficient accretion discs, the energy, momentum and mass outflow rates from such systems are estimated. Outflows occur via two fairly distinct modes:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Sadowski , R. Narayan , R. Penna , Y. Zhu

Recent results of the event horizon-scale images of M87* and Sagittarius A* from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration show that strong magnetic fields are likely present around the central black holes (BHs) in these sources.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Sera Markoff , Ramesh Narayan

Relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei, galactic microquasars, and gamma-ray bursts are widely considered to be magnetohydrodynamically driven by black hole accretion systems, although conversion mechanism from Poynting into particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-21 Kenji Toma , Fumio Takahara

A magnetic field connecting a Kerr black hole to a disk rotating around it can extract energy and angular momentum from the black hole and transfer them to the disk if the black hole rotates faster than the disk. The energy can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Li-Xin Li

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

We present 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic(GRMHD) simulations of zero angular momentum accretion around a rapidly rotating black hole, modified by the presence of initially uniform magnetic fields. We consider serveral angles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-17 Sean M. Ressler , Eliot Quataert , Christopher J. White , Omer Blaes

The exact time-dependent solution is obtained for a magnetic field growth during a spherically symmetric accretion into a black hole (BH) with a Schwarzschild metric. Magnetic field is increasing with time, changing from the initially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-03 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

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 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

We investigate the idea that ultrahigh energy gamma-rays (E>10 TeV) can be produced when charged particles are accelerated by microscopic black holes. We begin by showing that microscopic black holes may exist as remnants of primordial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Roberto Casadio , Benjamin Harms , Octavian Micu

An energy $E=\omega J$ is derived for gravitational spin-orbit coupling by frame-dragging $\omega$ acting on angular momentum $J$. This interaction defines a no-boundary mechanism for linear acceleration of magnetized matter along the axis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

The X-ray and radio flares observed in X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei (AGN) are attributed to energetic electrons in the plasma ejecta from the accretion flows near the black hole in these systems. It is argued that magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-28 Ziri Younsi , Kinwah Wu

The effect of mass and energy loading on the efficiency at which energy can be extracted magnetically from a Kerr black hole is explored, using a semi-analytic, ideal MHD model that incorporates plasma injection on magnetic field lines. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Noemie Globus , Amir Levinson

Stellar-mass black holes in x-ray binary systems are powered by mass transfer from a companion star. The accreted gas forms an accretion disk around the black hole and emits x-ray radiation in two distinct modes: hard and soft state. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-16 Joonas Nättilä

Qualitative arguments are presented to demonstrate that the energy density of magnetic fields in matter accreting onto a black hole inside the marginally stable orbit is automatically comparable to the rest-mass energy density of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. H. Krolik