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Global, general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of nonradiative, magnetized disks are widely used to model accreting black holes. We have performed a convergence study of GRMHD models computed with HARM3D. The models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Hotaka Shiokawa , Joshua C. Dolence , Charles F. Gammie , Scott C. Noble

Wormholes are a hypothetical object that connects disparate points in spacetime. It is a theoretically well-motivated black hole alternative and offers a potential observationally testable arena for probing strong-field gravity with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-08 Jing-ze Xia , Hong-xuan Jiang , Cheng Liu , Yosuke Mizuno

Simple assumptions made regarding electron thermodynamics often limit the extent to which general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations can be applied to observations of low-luminosity accreting black holes. We present,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-15 Sean M. Ressler , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Eliot Quataert , Mani Chandra , Charles F. Gammie

General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) flows along magnetic fields threading a black hole can be divided into inflow and outflow parts, according to the result of the competition between the black hole gravity and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Hung-Yi Pu , Masanori Nakamura , Kouichi Hirotani , Yosuke Mizuno , Kinwah Wu , Keiichi Asada

Black holes described by the Kerr metric can have a theoretical maximum dimensionless spin parameter of $a_\bullet = 1$, but several effects may limit the maximum spin parameter in astrophysical systems. We perform general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-23 Tegan A. Thomas , Angelo Ricarte , Cora Prather , Hyerin Cho

This paper describes the development and testing of a general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) code to study ideal MHD in the fixed background of a Kerr black hole. The code is a direct extension of the hydrodynamic code of Hawley,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jean-Pierre De Villiers , John F. Hawley

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

The construction of equilibrium models of accretion disks around compact objects has become a highly relevant topic in the recent times, thanks to the current understanding that indicates a direct relationship between these objects with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-25 Sergio Gimeno-Soler , Sayantani Lahiri , Claus Lämmerzahl

Most general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of black hole (BH) hot accretion flows are initialized with small rotating tori and produce stable jets with only small fluctuations. However, recent studies using larger scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-21 Hyerin Cho , Ramesh Narayan

We perform three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of a near-maximally spinning black hole (spin parameter, a = 0.998) with varying initial magnetic field geometries, systematically exploring the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Rohan Raha , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Koushik Chatterjee

We calculate the structure and evolution of a gamma ray burst central engine where an accreting torus has formed around the newly born black hole. We study the general relativistic,MHD models and we self-consistently incorporate the nuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Agnieszka Janiuk

In this study, we develop a simplified magnetofluid model in the framework of GRMHD. We consider an ideal, adiabatic fluid composed of two components, ions and electrons, having a constant ratio between their temperatures. The flows are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-26 Yehui Hou , Zhenyu Zhang , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

This work focuses on some key aspects of the General Relativistic (GR)-magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) applications in High-Energy Astrophysics. We discuss the relevance of the GR-HD counterparts formulation exploring the geometrically thick disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-11 D. Pugliese , G. Montani

We investigate stationary, self-gravitating, magnetised disks (or tori) around black holes. The models are obtained by numerically solving the coupled system of the Einstein equations and the equations of ideal general-relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-05 Patryk Mach , Sergio Gimeno-Soler , Jose A. Font , Andrzej Odrzywolek , Michal Pirog

The merger of binary neutron stars, or of a neutron star and a stellar-mass black hole, can result in the formation of a massive rotating torus around a spinning black hole. In addition to providing collimating media for gamma-ray burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-13 Daniel M. Siegel , Brian D. Metzger

Using axisymetric general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulations we study evolution of accretion torus around black hole endowed with different initial magnetic field configurations. Due to accretion of material onto black hole,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-17 Martin Kološ , Agnieszka Janiuk

We present the new general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) capabilities of the Einstein Toolkit, an open-source community-driven numerical relativity and computational relativistic astrophysics code. The GRMHD extension of the…

We present the first dynamical model of plasma accretion onto traversable wormholes by performing General Relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical (GRMHD) simulations of the flow on both sides of the wormhole. We evolve the ideal MHD equations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-14 Luciano Combi , Huan Yang , Eduardo Gutierrez , Scott C. Noble , Gustavo E. Romero , Manuela Campanelli

We investigate the global structure of general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic (GRMHD) accretion flows around Kerr black holes containing shock waves, where the disk is threaded by radial and toroidal magnetic fields. We self-consistently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-12 Samik Mitra , Santabrata Das

Merging binaries consisting of two neutron stars (NSs) or an NS and a stellar-mass black hole typically form a massive accretion torus around the remnant black hole or long-lived NS. Outflows from these neutrino-cooled accretion disks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-26 Daniel M. Siegel , Brian D. Metzger