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We present 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of the accretion flow surrounding Sagittarius A* that are initialized using larger-scale MHD simulations of the $\sim$ 30 Wolf--Rayet (WR) stellar winds in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 Sean M. Ressler , Christopher J. White , Eliot Quataert , James M. Stone

High-resolution observations with GRAVITY-VLTI instrument have provided abundant information about the flares in Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole in our Galactic center, including the time-dependent location of the centroid (a "hot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-28 Lin Xi , Yuan Feng

We numerically examine centrifugally supported shock waves in 2D rotating accretion flows around a stellar-mass (10M_sun) and a supermassive (10^6M_sun) black holes over a wide range of input accretion rates of 10^7 >\dot M/\dot…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Okuda , V. Teresi , D. Molteni

Two-dimensional numerical simulations of an accretion flow in a close binary system are performed by solving the Euler equations with radiative transfer. In the present study, the specific heat ratio is assumed to be constant while…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jun'ichi Sato , Keisuke Sawada , Naofumi Ohnishi

Our central Galactic supermassive black hole, Sgr A*, exists mostly in a very stable, extremely low-luminosity (~10^{-9} L_Edd), thermal quiescent state, which is interrupted roughly daily by a brief, nonthermal X-ray flare. Because they…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sera Markoff

We revisit theoretical and observational constraints on geometrically-thin disk accretion in Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). We show that the combined effects of mass outflows and electron energization in the hot part of the accretion flow can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Erin J. D. Jolley , Zdenka Kuncic

In the first paper of this series, using analytic tools, we examined how the evolution and structure of a massive accretion disk may be influenced by the deposition of mass and angular momentum by an infalling Bondi-Hoyle wind. Such a mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Robert F. Coker , Fulvio Melia , Heino Falcke

The supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), at the centre of the Milky Way undergoes regular flaring activity which is thought to arise from the innermost region of the accretion flow. We performed the monitoring observations of…

We investigate accretion disc models for the X-ray emission of Seyfert-1 galaxies and the hard state of black-hole X-ray binaries. We concentrate on two hot accretion disc models: advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF) and recently found…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Feng Yuan , Andrzej A. Zdziarski

In this proceeding, we provide a novel approach to study the General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) accretion flows around rotating black holes (BHs). In doing so, we choose a sub-Keplerian distribution of angular momentum of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-11 Samik Mitra

Recent observations of Sgr A* give strong constraints for possible models of the physical nature of Sgr A* and suggest the presence of a massive black~hole with M<2 10^6 M_sun surrounded by an accretion disk which we estimate to radiate at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Heino Falcke , Peter L. Biermann , Wolfgang J. Duschl , Peter G. Mezger

Using three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations with electron and proton thermodynamics and an electron cooling function, we probe the inner radial and vertical structure of weakly magnetized geometrically thin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-28 A. Hankla , J. Dexter , N. Scepi

We present global solutions of optically thin, two-temperature black hole accretion disks incorporating magnetic fields. We assume that the {\pi}{\phi}-component of the Maxwell stress is proportional to the total pressure, and prescribe the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Hiroshi Oda , Mami Machida , Kenji E. Nakamura , Ryoji Matsumoto , Ramesh Narayan

Wind is a key mechanism for supermassive black hole (SMBH) feedback to their host galaxies. In tidal disruption events (TDEs), black holes spend most of their time accreting at highly sub-Eddington rates, implying that feedback from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Mingjun Liu , De-Fu Bu , Xiao-Hong Yang , Jiaqi Li , Huaqing Cheng , Qinyu Wu , Wenjie Zhang , B. F. Liu

Recent infrared (IR) observations of the center of our Galaxy indicate that the supermassive black hole source Sgr A* is strongly variable in the IR. The timescale for the variability, $\sim 30$ min, is comparable to that of the X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Feng Yuan , Eliot Quataert , Ramesh Narayan

We study low angular momentum, advective accretion flows around a Kerr black hole within the framework of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) in the steady state. By solving the full set of GRMHD equations, we aim to provide a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-07 Gargi Sen , Debaprasad Maity , Santabrata Das

Numerical simulations of MHD accretion flows in the vicinity of a supermasssive black hole provide important insights to the problem of why and how systems -- such as the Galactic Center -- are underluminous and variable. To access…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Monika Moscibrodzka , Daniel Proga , Bozena Czerny , Aneta Siemiginowska

Simulations of hot, pressure supported, tilted black hole accretion flows, in which the angular momentum of the flow is misaligned with the black hole spin axis, can exhibit two non-axisymmetric shock structures in the inner regions of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Aleksey Generozov , Omer Blaes , P. Chris Fragile , Ken B. Henisey

Sagittarius A* is a compact radio source at the Galactic center, powered by accretion of fully ionized plasmas into a supermassive black hole. However, the radio emission cannot be produced through the thermal synchrotron process by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-04-02 Kyle W. Martin , Siming Liu , Chris Fragile , Cong Yu , Chris L. Fryer

We report that moderately eccentric flows around supermassive black holes (SMBHs), formed via either circumnuclear gas accretion or tidal disruption events, generate eccentricity cascades (from >0.8 to 0.2 outward), explaining…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-31 Hongping Deng
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