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In this paper, we extend the foundational work of Bondi (1952) to include the effects of radiative feedback in gas-pressure-dominated environments. We construct steady-state spherically symmetric accretion solutions including radiative…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Avery Bailey , Andrew Youdin , Kaitlin Kratter

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

The mass accretion rate of transonic spherical accretion flow onto compact objects such as black holes is known as the Bondi accretion rate(Mdot_B), which is determined only by the density and the temperature of gas at the outer boundary.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Myeong-Gu Park

The Bondi accretion rate of black holes in our and nearby galaxies Messier 87, NGC 3115, NGC 1600, and Cygnus A have been determined or constrained using Chandra or other observations. It, however, remains unknown how much mass from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-11 Yash Aggarwal

We studied magnetically arrested disks (MAD) around rotating black holes (BH), under the influence of radiative cooling. We introduce a critical value of the mass accretion rate $\dot M_{\rm crit}$ for which the cooling by the synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-18 Akshay Singh , Damien Bégué , Asaf Pe'er

The validity of the hypothesis that the massive black holes in high redshift quasars grew from stellar-sized "seeds" is contingent on a seed's ability to double its mass every few ten million years. This requires that the seed accrete at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Milos Milosavljevic , Volker Bromm , Sean M. Couch , S. Peng Oh

In this work we revisit the steady state, spherically symmetric gas accretion problem from the non-relativistic regime to the ultra-relativistic one. We first perform a detailed comparison between the Bondi and Michel models, and show how…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-09 Alejandro Aguayo-Ortiz , Emilio Tejeda , Olivier Sarbach , Diego López-Cámara

Accretion onto supermassive black holes (BHs) can launch relativistic jets that inject energy and momentum into their surroundings. Understanding how such feedback shapes large-scale accretion is key to bridging observations from galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-02 Aretaios Lalakos , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Elias R. Most , Bart Ripperda , Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska

It is difficult to implement numerical simulations on a region extending from the vicinity of a black hole to the Bondi radius. Most previous numerical simulations have primarily concentrated on the region close to the black hole. They…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Mu-Qing Liu , Xiao-Hong Yang , De-Fu Bu

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

We study the effects of accretion environment (gas density, temperature and angular momentum) at large radii ($\sim 10$pc) on luminosity of hot accretion flows. The radiative feedback effects from the accretion flow on the accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-24 Xiao-Hong Yang , De-Fu Bu

Disk accretion to rotating stars with complex magnetic fields is investigated using full three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. The studied magnetic configurations include superpositions of misaligned dipole and quadrupole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Long , M. M. Romanova , R. V. E. Lovelace

We study accretion from a uniform gas at rest onto equal-mass binaries -- the binary Bondi problem -- as a function of adiabatic index~$\gamma$ and compactness $\xi \equiv R_B/a$, where $R_B$ is the Bondi radius of the binary and $a$ is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Marcus DuPont , Eliot Quataert

Large scale magnetic field threading an accretion disk is a key ingredient in the jet formation model. The most attractive scenario for the origin of such a large scale field is the advection of the field by the gas in the accretion disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Xinwu Cao , H. C. Spruit

Mass accretion rate is a key parameter in accretion disk theory. It determines black hole accretion mode. In large scale cosmological simulations studying galaxy formation and evolution, Bondi radius can at most be marginally resolved. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 De-Fu Bu , Xiao-Hong Yang

(Abridged) We propose a new method to estimate the Bondi (hot gas) accretion rates, \dot M_B, onto the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centres of elliptical galaxies. It can be applied even if the Bondi radius is not well-resolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-19 Yutaka Fujita , Nozomu Kawakatu , Isaac Shlosman

One of the most active fields of research of modern-day astrophysics is that of massive black hole formation and co-evolution with the host galaxy. In these investigations, ranging from cosmological simulations, to semi-analytical modeling,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-18 L. Ciotti , S. Pellegrini

Stellar-mass compact objects (COs) embedded in active galactic nucleus (AGN) discs are commonly assumed to accrete via Bondi or Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton (BHL) prescriptions, neglecting gas angular momentum. We show that differential rotation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-19 Cheng-Liang Jiao , Liying Zhu , Er-gang Zhao , Jia Zhang

Radiative cooling can strongly influence the structure and dynamics of black hole accretion disks. Here, we perform general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GR-MHD) simulations of magnetically arrested disks (MADs) around a non-spinning…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Akshay Singh , Damien Begue , Asaf Pe'er

Whilst in galaxy-size simulations, supermassive black holes (SMBH) are entirely handled by sub-grid algorithms, computational power now allows the accretion radius of such objects to be resolved in smaller scale simulations. In this paper,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-29 Ricarda Sylvia Beckmann , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz