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The quasi-steady structure of super-critical accretion flows around a black hole is studied based on the two-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamical (2D-RHD) simulations. The super-critical flow is composed of two parts: the disk region and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Ohsuga , M. Mori , T. Nakamoto , S. Mineshige

We argue that supermassive black hole growth in AGN occurs via sequences of randomly--oriented accretion discs with angular momentum limited by self--gravity. These stably co-- or counter--align with the black hole spin with almost equal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. R. King , J. E. Pringle , J. A. Hofmann

The analysis of the thermal spectrum of geometrically thin and optically thick accretion disks of black holes, the so-called continuum-fitting method, is one of the leading techniques for measuring black hole spins. Current models normally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-23 Menglei Zhou , Askar B. Abdikamalov , Dimitry Ayzenberg , Cosimo Bambi , Victoria Grinberg , Ashutosh Tripathi

Black holes of mass M must have a spin angular momentum S below the Kerr limit chi = S/M^2 < 1, but whether astrophysical black holes can attain this limiting spin depends on their accretion history. Gas accretion from a thin disk limits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-21 Michael Kesden , Guglielmo Lockhart , E. Sterl Phinney

We study the effect of returning radiation on the shape of the X-ray reflection spectrum in the case of thin accretion disks. We show that the returning radiation mainly influences the observed reflection spectrum for a large black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-17 Thomas Dauser , Javier A García , Amy Joyce , Stefan Licklederer , Riley M T Connors , Adam Ingram , Christopher S Reynolds , Jörn Wilms

We construct an analytical black hole accretion disk model that incorporates both magnetic pressure and disk wind, which are found to be important from numerical simulations. A saturated magnetic pressure that relates the Alfven velocity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-11 Jiahui Huang , Hua Feng , Wei-Min Gu , Wen-Biao Wu

A brief summary of the properties of astrophysical black holes is presented. Various modes of accretion are distinguished, corresponding to accretion at rates from well below to well above the Eddington rate. The importance of mass loss is…

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

I discuss the stability of accretion disks when the black hole is considered to be rotating. I show, how the fluid properties get changed for different choices of angular momentum of black holes. I treat the problem in pseudo-Newtonian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

In this paper, we aim to investigate various physical properties and characteristics of radiation emerging from the surface of accretion disks, in a rotating traversable axially symmetric wormhole spacetime of the Teo class. We have studied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-20 Farook Rahaman , Tuhina Manna , Rajibul Shaikh , Somi Aktar , Monimala Mondal , Bidisha Samanta

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

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

We investigate the accretion of a collisionless, relativistic kinetic gas by a rotating Kerr black hole, assuming that at infinity the state of the gas is described by a distribution function depending only on the energy of the particles.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-27 Patryk Mach , Mehrab Momennia , Olivier Sarbach

We discuss the solution of accretion disk when the black hole is chosen to be rotating. We study, how the fluid properties get affected for different rotation parameters of the black hole. We know that no cosmic object is static in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Accretion onto black holes in wind-fed binaries and in collapsars forms small rotating discs with peculiar properties. Such ``mini-discs'' accrete on the free-fall time without help of viscosity and nevertheless can have a high radiative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Ivan Zalamea , Andrei M. Beloborodov

We use results from simulations of the production of magnetohydrodynamic jets around black holes to derive the cosmic spin history of the most massive black holes. We assume that the efficiency of jet production is a monotonic function of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Alejo Martinez-Sansigre , Steve Rawlings

When some magnetic field lines connect a Kerr black hole with a disk rotating around it, energy and angular momentum are transferred between them. If the black hole rotates faster than the disk, $ca/GM_H>0.36$ for a thin Keplerian disk,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Li-Xin Li

We present a new model to calculate reflection spectra of thin accretion disks in Kerr spacetimes. Our model includes the effect of returning radiation, which is the radiation that is emitted by the disk and returns to the disk because of…

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

We analyze in detail the spin precession equations in binary black hole systems, when the tidal torque on a Kerr black hole due to quadrupole-monopole coupling is taken into account. We show that completing the precession equations with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Etienne Racine

We consider the non-commutative(NC) Kerr black hole where the mass of the central object is smeared over a region of linear size $\sqrt{b}$, $b$ is the strength of the NC character of spacetime. For the spacetime under consideration, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-12 Sohan Kumar Jha