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Using high-resolution general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations, we investigate accretion flows around spinning black holes and identify three distinct accretion states. Our results suggest the origin of the complex…

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We present a new implementation of nuclear reaction networks in the \texttt{G}eneral-relativistic \texttt{mu}ltigrid \texttt{nu}merical (\texttt{Gmunu}) code, a framework for general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics (GRRMHD). The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , Christopher L. Fryer

We report on the fourth phase of our study of slightly rotating accretion flows onto black holes. The main new element of this study is that we used fully three dimensional (3-D) numerical simulations. We consider hydrodynamics of inviscid…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Agnieszka Janiuk , Daniel Proga , Ryuichi Kurosawa

We find new classes of exact solutions of the initial momentum constraint for vacuum Einstein's equations. Considered data are either invariant under a continuous symmetry or they are assumed to have the exterior curvature tensor of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-01 J. Tafel , M. Jóźwikowski

Traveling across several order of magnitude in distance, relativistic jets from strong gravity region to asymptotic flat spacetime region are believed to consist of several general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) processes. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 Hung-Yi Pu , Masaaki Takahashi

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has revealed the horizon-scale radiation of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), our galaxy's central supermassive black hole, offering a new platform to test gravitational theories. The next step involves studying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-16 Kotaro Moriyama , Alejandro Cruz-Osorio , Yosuke Mizuno , Indu K. Dihingia , Akhil Uniyal

Accretion onto a supermassive black hole of a rotating inflow is a particularly difficult problem to study because of the wide range of length scales involved. There have been broadly utilized analytic and numerical treatments of the global…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Jason Li , Jeremiah Ostriker , Rashid Sunyaev

In this paper, we calculate the modification to the thermodynamics of a Schwarzschild black hole in higher dimensions because of Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP). We use the fact that the leading order corrections to the entropy of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-09 Sunandan Gangopadhyay , Abhijit Dutta , Mir Faizal

Asymptotically flat, time-symmetric, axially symmetric and conformally flat initial data for vacuum general relativity are studied numerically on $R^3$ with the interior of a standard torus cut out. By the choice of boundary condition the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Sascha Husa

In low-luminosity active galactic nuclei like M87$^\ast$ and Sgr A$^\ast$, the accretion flow in the vicinity of the black hole is in the collisionless regime, meaning that the collisional mean free path of charged particles is much larger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-24 Martin Luepker , Yajie Yuan , Alexander Y. Chen

(abridged) Three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations with an Eulerian PPM code are presented for the time-dependent evolution of accretion tori around nonrotating and rotating stellar-mass black holes (BHs), using a pseudo-Newtonian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Setiawan , M. Ruffert , H. -Th. Janka

We build equilibrium solutions of magnetised thick discs around a highly spinning Kerr black hole and evolve these initial data up to a final time of about 100 orbital periods. The numerical simulations reported in this paper solve the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-28 Alejandro Cruz-Osorio , Sergio Gimeno-Soler , José A. Font

Discerning the likelihood of the so-called runaway instability of thick accretion disks orbiting black holes is an important issue for most models of cosmic gamma-ray bursts. To this aim we investigate this phenomenon by means of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jose A. Font , Frederic Daigne

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

X-ray reflection spectroscopy is currently one of the leading techniques for studying the inner part of accretion disks around black holes, measuring black hole spins, and even testing fundamental physics in strong gravitational fields.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-14 Swarnim Shashank , Shafqat Riaz , Askar B. Abdikamalov , Cosimo Bambi

We derive an exact solution of the spherically symmetric Bardeen black hole surrounded by perfect fluid dark matter (PFDM). By treating the magnetic charge $g$ and dark matter parameter $\alpha$ as thermodynamic variables, we find that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-26 He-Xu Zhang , Yuan Chen , Tian-Chi Ma , Peng-Zhang He , Jian-Bo Deng

We demonstrate that special correlations in the initial conditions of freely evolving, homogeneous magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence can lead to the formation of enormous current sheets. These coherent structures are observed at the peak…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Vassilios Dallas , Alexandros Alexakis

General-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations are an important tool to study a variety of astrophysical systems such as neutron star mergers, core-collapse supernovae, and accretion onto compact objects. A conservative GRMHD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-26 Daniel M. Siegel , Philipp Mösta , Dhruv Desai , Samantha Wu

We study the effects of initial and boundary conditions, taking two-dimensional hydrodynamical numerical simulations of hot accretion flow as an example. The initial conditions considered include a rotating torus, a solution expanded from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 De-Fu Bu , Feng Yuan , Maochun Wu , Jorge Cuadra

We explore some implications of our previous proposal, motivated in part by the Generalised Uncertainty Principle (GUP) and the possibility that black holes have quantum mechanical hair that the ADM mass of a system has the form $M + \beta…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-22 Bernard Carr , Heather Mentzer , Jonas Mureika , Piero Nicolini