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Strong gravity and magnetic fields are key ingredients that power processes of accretion and ejection near compact objects. While the particular mechanisms that operate here are still discussed, it seems that the presence of an ordered…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-02 Ondřej Kopáček , Vladimír Karas

We investigate how Hawking radiation from low-mass primordial black holes deposits energy into the early-universe plasma and show that the resulting phenomena are hydrodynamic rather than purely diffusive. Combining analytic arguments with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Miguel Vanvlasselaer , Sokratis Trifinopoulos , Alexandra P. Klipfel , David I. Kaiser

We discuss stationary and axisymmetric trans-magnetosonic outflows in the magnetosphere of a rotating black hole (BH). Ejected plasma from the plasma source located near the BH is accelerated far away to form a relativistic jet. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Masaaki Takahashi , Motoki Kino , Hung-Yi Pu

In this paper, we present the stationary axisymmetric configuration of a resistive magnetised thick accretion disc in the vicinity of external gravity and intrinsic dipolar magnetic field of a slowly rotating black hole. The plasma is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Mahboobeh Shaghaghian

Magnetic field can be amplified and twisted near a supermassive black hole residing in a galactic nucleus. At the same time magnetic null points develop near the horizon. We examine a large-scale oblique magnetic field near a rotating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-19 V. Karas , O. Kopacek , D. Kunneriath

We present our first numerical results of axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic simulations for neutrino-cooled accretion tori around rotating black holes in general relativity. We consider tori of mass $\sim 0.1$--0.4$M_{\odot}$ around a black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 M. Shibata , Y. Sekiguchi , R. Takahashi

We investigate the global structure of general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic (GRMHD) accretion flows around Kerr black holes containing shock waves, where the disk is threaded by radial and toroidal magnetic fields. We self-consistently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-12 Samik Mitra , Santabrata Das

We discuss one of the possible origins of large-scale magnetic fields based on a continuous distribution of toroidal electric current flowing in the inner region of the disc around a Kerr black hole (BH) in the framework of general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Cheng-Xuan Zhao , Ding-Xiong Wang , Zhao-Ming Gan

When a black hole accretes plasmas at very low accretion rate, an advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF) is formed. In an ADAF, relativistic electrons emit soft gamma-rays via Bremsstrahlung. Some MeV photons collide with each other to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-26 Kouichi Hirotani

Observations over the past decade have verified, beyond reasonable doubt, that most galactic nuclei contain massive black holes. Hole masses are being measured and firm evidence for spin is being sought. Attention is now returning to the…

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

Outflows and convective motions in accretion flows have been intensively discussed recently in the context of advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF) based on two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamical simulations. We,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mami Machida , Ryoji Matsumoto , and Shin Mineshige

Accreting black holes (BHs) launch relativistic collimated jets, across many decades in luminosity and mass, suggesting the jet launching mechanism is universal, robust and scale-free. Theoretical models and general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-11 M. T. P. Liska , A. Tchekhovskoy , E. Quataert

It has for long been an article of faith among astrophysicists that black hole spin energy is responsible for powering the relativistic jets seen in accreting black holes. Two recent advances have strengthened the case. First, numerical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Ramesh Narayan , Jeffrey E. McClintock , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

Rotating black holes are known to launch relativistic jets and accelerate particles provided they accrete a magnetized plasma. However, it remains unclear how the global magnetic field orientation affects the jet powering efficiency. Here,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-27 Enzo Figueiredo , Benoît Cerutti , Kyle Parfrey

We develop a model of ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) production via acceleration in a rotation-induced electric field in vacuum gaps in the magnetospheres of supermassive black holes (BH). We show that if the poloidal magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Neronov , D. Semikoz , I. Tkachev

Fueling and feedback couple supermassive black holes (SMBHs) to their host galaxies across many orders of magnitude in spatial and temporal scales, making this problem notoriously challenging to simulate. We use a multi-zone computational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-22 Hyerin Cho , Ben S. Prather , Ramesh Narayan , Priyamvada Natarajan , Kung-Yi Su , Angelo Ricarte , Koushik Chatterjee

Magnetic Penrose process (MPP) is not only the most exciting and fascinating process mining the rotational energy of black hole but it is also the favored astrophysically viable mechanism for high energy sources and phenomena. It operates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-28 Arman Tursunov , Naresh Dadhich

We implement the KORAL code to perform two sets of very long general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of an axisymmetric optically thin magnetized flow around a non-rotating black hole: one with a new term in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-01 Ioannis Contopoulos , Antonios Nathanail , Alexander Sadowski , Demosthenes Kazanas , Ramesh Narayan

(Abbrev.) We analyze the topology, lifetime, and emissions of a torus around a black hole formed in hypernovae and black hole-neutron star coalescence. The torus is ab initio uniformly magnetized, represented by two counter oriented…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten , Amir Levinson

We consider accretion of charged test matter by rotating, magnetic black holes and discuss a number of aspects in which the interaction of the angular momentum contained in the electromagnetic field and the spin of the hole plays a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-09 Conor Dyson , David Pereñiguez