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The co-evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies remains one of the central open questions in cosmology, rooted in the coupling between accretion, feedback, and the multi-scale physics that links the event…

The sheer range of scales in the Universe makes it impossible to model all at once. It is necessary, therefore, when conducting numerical experiments, that we employ sub-resolution prescriptions that can represent the scales we are unable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-26 Alexander Hobbs

Understanding how supermassive black holes (BHs) couple to their host galaxies across a vast spatial and temporal dynamic range remains a central challenge in galaxy evolution. Using the multizone framework -- designed to capture…

In large scale cosmological hydrodynamic simulations simplified sub-grid models for gas accretion onto black holes and AGN feedback are commonly used. Such models typically depend on various free parameters, which are not well constrained.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Lisa K. Steinborn , Klaus Dolag , Michaela Hirschmann , M. Almudena Prieto , Rhea-Silvia Remus

In this work we revisit the steady state, spherically symmetric gas accretion problem from the non-relativistic regime to the ultra-relativistic one. We first perform a detailed comparison between the Bondi and Michel models, and show how…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-09 Alejandro Aguayo-Ortiz , Emilio Tejeda , Olivier Sarbach , Diego López-Cámara

Several processes may limit the accretion rate onto a super-massive black hole (SMBH). Two processes that are commonly considered (e.g., for sub-grid prescriptions) are Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton accretion and the Eddington limit. A third one is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 Meir Zeilig Hess , Amir Levinson , Ehud Nakar

The large galactic scales are connected to the many orders of magnitude smaller supermassive black hole (SMBH) scales by an episodic cycle of feeding and feedback. Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are powered by accretion onto SMBH and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-29 Matas Tartėnas , Kastytis Zubovas

In this third study of the 'Resolving supermAssive Black hole Binaries In galacTic hydrodynamical Simulations' (RABBITS) series we develop and implement a geometrically thin relativistic accretion disc model, which self-consistently evolves…

Accretion on to seed black holes (BHs) is believed to play a crucial role in formation of supermassive BHs observed at high-redshift (z>6). Here, we investigate the combined effect of gas angular momentum and radiation feedback on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-24 Kazuyuki Sugimura , Takashi Hosokawa , Hidenobu Yajima , Kohei Inayoshi , Kazuyuki Omukai

Observations of many dim galactic nuclei in local universe give good estimation of gas density and temperature at Bondi radius. If we assume the black hole accretes at Bondi accretion rate and radiates at efficiency of low-luminosity hot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-07 De-Fu Bu , Xiao-Hong Yang

We present a ``cyclic zoom'' method to capture the dynamics of accretion flows onto black holes across a vast range of spatial and temporal scales in general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations. In this method, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Minghao Guo , James M. Stone , Eliot Quataert , Volker Springel

The Bondi solution, which describes the radial inflow of a gas onto a non-rotating black hole, provides a powerful test for numerical relativistic codes. However, the Bondi solution is usually derived in Schwarzschild coordinates, which are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-25 August J. Miller , Thomas W. Baumgarte

In this work, we present, for the first time, a numerical study of the Bondi-Hoyle accretion with density gradients in the fully relativistic regime. In this context, we consider accretion onto a Kerr Black Hole (BH) of a supersonic ideal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-03 F. D. Lora-Clavijo , A. Cruz-Osorio , Enrique Moreno Méndez

The classic Bondi solution remains a common starting point both for studying black hole growth across cosmic time in cosmological simulations and for smaller scale simulations of AGN feedback. In nature, however, there will be inhomogenous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Tim Waters , Aycin Aykutalp , Daniel Proga , Jarrett Johnson , Hui Li , Joseph Smidt

Accurate modeling of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback, especially due to relativistic jets, is crucial for understanding the cool-core problem in galaxy clusters. We present a new subgrid method to model accretion onto and feedback…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-24 Ying-He Celeste Lü , Paul M. Ricker

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

An ultrarelativistic relativistic study of axisymmetric Bondi--Hoyle accretion onto a moving Kerr black hole is presented. The equations of general relativistic hydrodynamics are solved using high resolution shock capturing methods. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Andrew J. Penner

We describe techniques for incorporating feedback from star formation and black hole accretion into simulations of isolated and merging galaxies. At present, the details of these processes cannot be resolved in simulations on galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Volker Springel , Tiziana Di Matteo , Lars Hernquist

We derive an exact solution representing a Bondi-type stationary accretion of a kinetic (Vlasov) gas onto the Kerr black hole. The solution is exact in the sense that relevant physical quantities, such as the particle current density or the…

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

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