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Viscous Keplerian discs become sub-Keplerian close to a black hole since they pass through sonic points before entering into it. We study the time evolution of polytropic viscous accretion discs (both in one and two dimensional flows) using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Giuseppe Lanzafame , D. Molteni , S. K. Chakrabarti

When a star passes close to a supermassive black hole (BH), the BH's tidal forces rip it apart into a thin stream, leading to a tidal disruption event (TDE). In this work, we study the post-disruption phase of TDEs in general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Zachary L. Andalman , Matthew T. P. Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Eric R. Coughlin , Nicholas Stone

Accretion disks, swirling structures of matter spiraling into black holes, play a pivotal role in our understanding of binary star systems and their intricate evolutionary processes. While current models often simplify these complex…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-26 Seyyed Masoud Hoseyni , Jamshid Ghanbari , Mahboobe Moeen Moghaddas

We analyse some properties of circumplanetary discs. Flow through such discs may provide most of the mass to gas giant planets, and such discs are likely sites for the formation of regular satellites. We model these discs as accretion discs…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

Interactions between a supermassive black hole binary and the surrounding accretion disc can both assist the binary inspiral and align the black hole spins to the disc angular momentum. While binary migration is due to angular-momentum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-02 Davide Gerosa , Benedetta Veronesi , Giuseppe Lodato , Giovanni Rosotti

It is generally believed that gaseous disks around supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries in centers of galaxies can facilitate binary merger and give rise to observational signatures both in electromagnetic and gravitational wave domains.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Roman R. Rafikov

Gravitational waves from asymmetric mass-ratio black-hole binaries carry unique information about their astrophysical environment. For instance, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) could potentially measure the amplitude and slope…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-03 Lorenzo Copparoni , Lorenzo Speri , Laura Sberna , Andrea Derdzinski , Enrico Barausse

We study the interaction of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary and a standard radiatively efficient thin accretion disk. We examine steady-state configurations of the disk and migrating SMBH system, self-consistently accounting for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Bence Kocsis , Zoltan Haiman , Abraham Loeb

With hydrodynamical simulations we examine the evolution of a highly misaligned circumbinary disc around a black hole binary including the effects of general relativity. We show that a disc mass of just a few percent of the binary mass can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-20 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen Lepp , Bing Zhang , C. J. Nixon , Anna C. Childs

We construct new models of black hole-neutron star binaries in quasiequilibrium circular orbits by solving Einstein's constraint equations in the conformal thin-sandwich decomposition together with the relativistic equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Keisuke Taniguchi , Thomas W. Baumgarte , Joshua A. Faber , Stuart L. Shapiro

Accretion discs around black holes in X-ray binary stars are warped if the spin axis of the black hole is not perpendicular to the binary orbital plane. They can also become eccentric through an instability involving a resonance with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gordon I. Ogilvie , Barbara T. Ferreira

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

The inspiral of supermassive black-hole binaries in gas-rich environment is driven by the presence of an accretion disc and viscous interactions tend to align the spin of the black holes with the orbital angular momentum of the disc. Recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-07 Rebecca Nealon , Enrico Ragusa , Davide Gerosa , Giovanni Rosotti , Riccardo Barbieri

We perform several black-hole binary evolutions using fully nonlinear numerical relativity techniques at separations large enough that low-order post-Newtonian expansions are expected to be accurate. As a case study, we evolve an equal-mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-04 Carlos O. Lousto , Yosef Zlochower

Tidal disruption events, which occur when a star is shredded by the tidal field of a supermassive black hole, provide a means of fueling black hole accretion. Here we show, using a combination of three body orbit integrations and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 Eric R. Coughlin , Philip J. Armitage

Black holes (BHs) surrounded by accretion disks are present in the Universe at different scales of masses, from microquasars up to the active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The current picture remains ad hoc due to the complexity of the magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 Mikołaj Grzędzielski , Agnieszka Janiuk , Bożena Czerny , Qingwen Wu

We present three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of the evolution of selfgravitating, thick accretion discs around hyperaccreting stellar-mass black holes. The black hole-torus systems are considered to be remnants of compact object…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Setiawan , M. Ruffert , H. -Th. Janka

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) pair and form bound binaries after their host galaxies merge. In a gas-rich merger, accretion discs are expected to form around the binary and its components. These discs control the binary orbital evolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-14 Camilo Fontecilla , Zoltán Haiman , Jorge Cuadra

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

Perturber objects interacting with supermassive black hole accretion disks are often invoked to explain observed quasi-periodic behavior in active galactic nuclei (AGN). We present global, 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-04 Sean M. Ressler , Luciano Combi , Xinyu Li , Bart Ripperda , Huan Yang