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Accreting supermassive black hole binaries are powerful multimessenger sources emitting both gravitational and EM radiation. Understanding the accretion dynamics of these systems and predicting their distinctive EM signals is crucial to…

The influence of disc radiation capture upon black hole rotational evolution is negligible for radiatively inefficient discs. For the standard thin disc model it is a slight but potentially important effect leading to the equilibrium spin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Pavel Abolmasov

We study accretion environments of active galactic nuclei when a super-massive black hole wanders in a circum-nuclear region and passes through an interstellar medium there. It is expected that a Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton type accretion of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-03 Hajime Inoue

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

We investigate the evolution of the surface density of a circumbinary accretion disc after the mass loss induced by the merger of two supermassive black holes. We first introduce an analytical model, under the assumption of a disc composed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Giovanni P. Rosotti , Giuseppe Lodato , Daniel J. Price

We analyse, using new analytical models and numerical general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations, the three-dimensional properties of accretion flows inside the plunging region of black hole spacetimes (i.e., at radii smaller than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-03 Andrew Mummery , James M. Stone

We summarize results from a survey of radiation-dominated black hole accretion flows across a wide range of mass accretion rates, as well as two values of black hole spin and initial magnetic field geometry. These models apply an algorithm…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Lizhong Zhang , James M. Stone , Patrick D. Mullen , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang , Christopher J. White

Remnant accretion disks formed in compact object mergers are an important ingredient in the understanding of electromagnetic afterglows of multi-messenger gravitational-wave events. Due to magnetically and neutrino driven winds, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-07 Elias R. Most , L. Jens Papenfort , Samuel D. Tootle , Luciano Rezzolla

Understanding how accretion proceeds in proto-planetary discs and more generally their dynamics is a crucial issue for explaining the conditions in which planets form. The role that accretion of gas from the surrounding molecular cloud onto…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-15 Patrick Hennebelle , Geoffroy Lesur , Sébastien Fromang

(abridged) The connection between black hole, accretion disk, and radio jet can be best constrained by fitting models to observations of nearby low luminosity galactic nuclei, in particular the well studied sources Sgr~A* and M87. There has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-02 Monika Moscibrodzka , Heino Falcke , Hotaka Shiokawa

The accretion of material onto a black hole modifies the properties of that hole owing to the capture of both matter and radiation. Adding matter to the hole through an accretion disc generally acts to increase the hole's spin parameter,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-13 Andrew Mummery

We introduce a new model for the accretion and feedback of supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries to the KETJU code, which enables us to resolve the evolution of SMBH binaries down to separations of tens of Schwarzschild radii in gas-rich…

The accretion efficiency for individual black holes is very difficult to determine accurately. There are many factors that can influence each step of the calculation, such as the dust and host galaxy contribution to the observed luminosity,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 S. I. Raimundo , A. C. Fabian , R. V. Vasudevan , P. Gandhi , Jianfeng Wu

High-redshift ($z>2$) blazars, with relativistic jets aligned toward us, probe the most powerful end of the active galactic nuclei (AGN) population. We aim at determining the black hole masses and mass accretion rates of high-$z$ blazars in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-15 G. Kyriopoulos , M. Petropoulou , G. Vasilopoulos , D. Hatzidimitriou

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

In theoretical models of galaxy evolution, black hole feedback is a necessary ingredient in order to explain the observed exponential decline in number density of massive galaxies. Most contemporary black hole feedback models in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-07 Douglas Rennehan , Arif Babul , Belaid Moa , Romeel Davé

In this paper, perturbations of an accretion disk by a star orbiting around a black hole are studied. We report on a numerical experiment, which has been carried out by using a parallel-machine code originally developed by D\"{o}nmez…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Orhan Donmez

It has long been thought that black hole accretion flows are driven by magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, and there are now many general relativistic global simulations illustrating the dynamics of this process. However, many challenges…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-11 Chris Nagele , Julian H. Krolik , Rongrong Liu , Brooks E. Kinch , Jeremy D. Schnittman

I review recent progresses in the dynamics and the evolution of self-gravitating accretion discs. Accretion discs are a fundamental component of several astrophysical systems on very diverse scales, and can be found around supermassive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Lodato

We study accretion rates during the gravitational wave-driven merger of a binary supermassive black hole embedded in an accretion disc, formed by gas driven to the centre of the galaxy. We use 3D simulations performed with PHANTOM, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-03 Alice Cerioli , Giuseppe Lodato , Daniel J. Price