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Numerical simulation of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence makes it possible to study accretion dynamics in detail. However, special effort is required to connect inflow dynamics (dependent largely on angular momentum transport) to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Scott C. Noble , Julian H. Krolik , John F. Hawley

Outflows are inevitably driven from the disk if the vertical component of the black hole (BH) gravity cannot resist the radiation force. We derive the mass loss rate in the outflows by solving a dynamical equation for the vertical gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Xinwu Cao , Wei-Min Gu

One of the most pressing questions in cosmology is how the black holes (BHs) powering quasars at high redshift grow to supermassive scales within a billion years of the Big Bang. Here we show that sustained super-Eddington accretion can be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-31 Jarrett Lawrence Johnson , Phoebe R. Upton Sanderbeck

We perform two-dimensional radiation hydrodynamical simulations of accretion flows onto a black hole (BH) with a mass of $10^3\leq M_{\rm BH}/M_{\odot} \lesssim 10^6$ in order to study rapid growth of BHs in the early Universe. For…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 E. Takeo , K. Inayoshi , K. Ohsuga , H. R. Takahashi , S. Mineshige

We study the long-term evolution of the global structure of axisymmetric accretion flows onto a black hole (BH) at rates substantially higher than the Eddington value ($\dot{M}_{\rm Edd}$), performing two-dimensional hydrodynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-01 Haojie Hu , Kohei Inayoshi , Zoltán Haiman , Eliot Quataert , Rolf Kuiper

By performing 2.5-dimensional special relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations, we study the super-critical accretion disks and the outflows launched via the radiation force. We find that the outflow is accelerated by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Ken Ohsuga

Black hole - accretion disc systems are the central engines of relativistic jets from stellar to galactic scales. We numerically quantify the unsteady outgoing Poynting flux through the horizon of a rapidly spinning black hole endowed with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 J. F. Mahlmann , A. Levinson , M. A. Aloy

We present axisymmetric numerical simulations of radiatively inefficient accretion flows onto black holes combining general relativity, magnetohydrodynamics, self-consistent electron thermodynamics, and frequency-dependent radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Benjamin R. Ryan , Sean M. Ressler , Joshua C. Dolence , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Charles F. Gammie , Eliot Quataert

Super-Eddington accretion discs with 3 and 15 dot M_E around black holes with mass 10 M_sun are examined by two-dimensional radiation hydrodynamical calculations extending from the inner disc edge to 5*10^4 r_g and lasting up to \sim 10^6…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Okuda , V. Teresi , E. Toscano , D. Molteni

The comparison of the black hole mass function (BHMF) of active galactic nuclei (AGN) relics with the measured mass function of the massive black holes in galaxies provides strong evidence for the growth of massive black holes being…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xinwu Cao , Fan Li

By performing three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of a galaxy in an isolated dark matter halo, we follow the evolution of the spin parameter $a$ of a black hole (BH) undergoing super-Eddington phases throughout its growth. This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-08 Warren Massonneau , Yohan Dubois , Marta Volonteri , Ricarda S. Beckmann

In this paper, we report on three of the largest (in terms of simulation domain size) and longest (in terms of duration) 3D general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of super-critical accretion onto black holes. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-15 P. Chris Fragile , Matthew J. Middleton , Deepika A. Bollimpalli , Zach Smith

We review and discuss theoretical studies addressing the possibility of gas accretion onto black holes occurring at rates exceeding the Eddington limit. Our focus is on the applications to the growth of black hole seeds at high redshift. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-22 Lucio Mayer

We present global radiation GRMHD simulations of strongly magnetized accretion onto a spinning, stellar mass black hole at sub-Eddington rates. Using a frequency-dependent Monte Carlo procedure for Compton scattering, we self-consistently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-04 Jason Dexter , Nicolas Scepi , Mitchell C. Begelman

Understanding the physics and geometry of accretion and ejection around super massive black holes (SMBHs) is important to understand the evolution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and therefore of the large scale structures of the Universe.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-11 Margherita Giustini , Daniel Proga

The spin is an important but poorly constrained parameter for describing supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Using the continuity equation of SMBH number density, we explicitly obtain the mass-dependent cosmological evolution of the radiative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Yan-Rong Li , Jian-Min Wang , Luis C. Ho

Super-Eddington mass accretion has been suggested as an efficient mechanism to grow supermassive black holes (SMBHs). We investigate the imprint left by the radiative efficiency of the super-Eddington accretion process on the clustering of…

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

We present the first three-dimensional radiation magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) simulation of a sub-Eddington circumbinary disk (CBD) around an equal-mass massive black hole binary (MBHB) with a total mass of $2\,\times\,10^7\,M_{\odot}$ on a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-11 Vishal Tiwari , Chi-Ho Chan , Tamara Bogdanović , Yan-Fei Jiang , Shane W. Davis , Simon Ferrel

We present results of cosmological zoom-in simulations of a massive protocluster down to redshift $z\approx4$ (when the halo mass is $\approx10^{13}$ M$_\odot$) using the SWIFT code and the EAGLE galaxy formation model, focusing on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-23 Filip Huško , Cedric G. Lacey , William J. Roper , Joop Schaye , Jemima Mae Briggs , Matthieu Schaller