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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

We carried out three-dimensional global resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the cooling instability in optically thin hot black hole accretion flows by assuming bremsstrahlung cooling. General relativistic effects are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Mami Machida , Kenji Nakamura , Ryoji Matsumoto

The flow of a matter, accreting onto a magnetized neutron star, is accompanied by an electric current. The closing of the electric current occurs in the crust of a neutron stars in the polar region across the magnetic field. But the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-01 Ya. N. Istomin , I. A. Semerikov

A relativistic model of geometrically thin and optically thick accretion disks is worked out for a class of magnetically charged black holes, which are solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory with a dilaton-coupled Euler-Heisenberg…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-13 Yu-Hao Jiang , Towe Wang

We present the effects of ordered large scale magnetic field on the structure of supercritical accretion flow in the presence of outflow. In the cylindrical coordinates ($r, \varphi,z$), We write the 1.5 dimensional, the steady state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 Maryam Ghasemnezhad , Shahram Abbassi

This paper examines the general relativistic model of a geometrically thick configuration of an accretion disc around an electrically charged black hole in an accelerated motion, as described by the C-metric family. We aim to study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-14 Shokoufe Faraji , Audrey Trova , Vladimir Karas

We present a novel approach to study the global structure of steady, axisymmetric, advective, geometrically thin, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) accretion flow around black holes in full general relativity (GR). Considering ideal MHD conditions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 Samik Mitra , Debaprasad Maity , Indu Kalpa Dihingia , Santabrata Das

Magnetically arrested accretion discs (MADs) around black holes (BH) have the potential to stimulate the production of powerful jets and account for recent ultra-high-resolution observations of BH environments. Their main properties are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Mitchell C. Begelman , Nicolas Scepi , Jason Dexter

We reconsider the problem of the formation of a large-scale magnetic field in the accretion disks around black holes. In contrast with previous work we take into account the nonuniform vertical structure of the disk. The high electrical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , R. V. E. Lovelace

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

We characterize the nature of thin, axisymmetric, inviscid, accretion flows of cold adiabatic gas with zero specific energy in the vicinity of a black hole by the specific angular momentum. Using two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Dongsu Ryu , Sandip K. Chakrabarti , Diego Molteni

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

In certain scenarios, the accreted angular momentum of plasma onto a black hole could be low; however, how the accretion dynamics depend on the angular momentum content of the plasma is still not fully understood. We present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-23 Ho-Sang Chan , Prasun Dhang , Jason Dexter , Mitchell C. Begelman

We suggest that the hysteretic cycle of black hole state transitions arises from two established properties of accretion disks: the increase in turbulent stress in disks threaded by a net magnetic field and the ability of thick (but not…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Mitchell C. Begelman , Philip J. Armitage

For the past twenty-five years, nearly all analyses of accretion disk dynamics have assumed that stress inside the disk is locally proportional to pressure (the "alpha-model") and that this stress goes to zero at the marginally stable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Julian H. Krolik

Observations indicate that wind can be generated in hot accretion flow. By performing numerical simulations, Yuan et al. studied the detailed properties of wind generated from weakly magnetized accretion flow. However, properties of wind…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 De-Fu Bu , Amin Mosallanezhad

Recent studies have focused on how spinning black holes (BHs) within a binary system containing a strongly magnetized neutron star, then immersed in external magnetic fields, can acquire charge through mechanisms like the Wald process and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-04 Audrey Trova , Eva Hackmann

We discuss the results of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations, using a pseudo-Newtonian potential, of thin disk (h/r ~ 0.1) accretion onto black holes. We find (i) that magnetic stresses persist within the marginally stable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Christopher S. Reynolds , Philip J. Armitage , James Chiang

We present three-dimensional (3-D) magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of radiatively inefficient accretion flow around black holes. General relativistic effects are simulated by using the pseudo-Newtonian potential. We start…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yoshiaki Kato , Shin Mineshige , Kazunari Shibata

Black-hole accretion systems are known to possess several distinct modes (or spectral states), such as low/hard state, high/soft state, and so on. Since the dynamics of the corresponding flows is distinct, theoretical models were separately…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Ken Ohsuga , Shin Mineshige , Masao Mori , Yoshiaki Kato