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We present three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the fueling of supermassive black holes in elliptical galaxies from a turbulent cooling medium on galactic scales, taking M87* as a typical case. We find that the mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Minghao Guo , James M. Stone , Eliot Quataert , Chang-Goo Kim

Recent general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of accretion onto black holes have shown that, contrary to the basic assumptions of the Novikov-Thorne model, there can be substantial magnetic stress throughout the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Scott C. Noble , Julian H. Krolik , Jeremy D. Schnittman , John F. Hawley

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Rohan Raha , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Koushik Chatterjee

Growth of the black holes (BHs) from the seeds to supermassive BHs (SMBHs, $\sim\!10^9\,M_\odot$) is not understood, but the mass accretion must have played an important role. We performed two-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-11 Mariko Nomura , Kazuyuki Omukai , Ken Ohsuga

Magnetically-arrested disks (MADs) appear when accretion flows are supplied with a sufficient amount of magnetic flux. In this work, we use results of magnetohydrodynamic simulations to set the configuration of the magnetic field and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-31 Fu-Guo Xie , Andrzej A. Zdziarski

The launching of astrophysical jets provides the most compelling observational evidence for direct extraction of black hole (BH) spin energy via the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) mechanism. Whilst it is known that spinning Kerr BHs within general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-08 Koushik Chatterjee , Ziri Younsi , Prashant Kocherlakota , Ramesh Narayan

We study the energetics of a black hole-accretion disk system with magnetic connection: a Keplerian disk is connected to a Kerr black hole by a large-scale magnetic field going through the transition region. We assume that the magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Li-Xin Li

Radiation-driven outflows play a crucial role in extracting mass and angular momentum from binary systems undergoing rapid mass transfer at super-Eddington rates. To study the mass transfer process from a massive donor star to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-14 Daisuke Toyouchi , Kenta Hotokezaka , Kohei Inayoshi , Rolf Kuiper

We discuss the results of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations, using a pseudo-Newtonian potential, of thin disk (h/r ~ 0.1) accretion onto black holes. We find (i) that magnetic stresses persist within the marginally stable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Christopher S. Reynolds , Philip J. Armitage , James Chiang

The angular momentum of gas feeding a black hole (BH) is typically misaligned with respect to the BH spin, resulting in a tilted accretion disk. Rotation of the BH drags the surrounding space-time, manifesting as Lense-Thirring torques that…

Magnetic fields regulate black hole (BH) accretion, governing both inflow and outflow dynamics. When a BH accumulates substantial vertical magnetic flux, it enters the magnetically arrested disk (MAD) state, where dynamically important…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-18 Koushik Chatterjee , Nicholas Kaaz , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Sera Markoff

We report the first 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulation that captures the full, self-consistent evolution from the late inspiral through merger and subsequent recoil of a supermassive binary black hole (SMBBH)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-08 Maria Chiara de Simone , Manuela Campanelli , Lorenzo Ennoggi , Carlos O. Lousto , Yosef Zlochower

We study a combined model of black hole - accretion disk - magnetosphere - jet symbiosis, applicable for supermassive black holes. We quantify the mass and spin evolution and we analyze how the limiting value of the spin parameter and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-14 Zoltán Kovács , László Á. Gergely , Peter L. Biermann

We review some recent results of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GR-MHD) simulations considering the evolution of geometrically thin disks around a central black hole. Thin disk GR-MHD simulations complement the widely used MAD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-10 Indu K. Dihingia , Christian Fendt

This paper, the second of a series on radiation-regulated accretion onto black holes (BHs) from galactic scales, focuses on the effects of radiation pressure and angular momentum of the accreting gas. We simulate accretion onto…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-13 KwangHo Park , Massimo Ricotti

Liu and collaborators recently proposed an elliptical accretion disk model for tidal disruption events (TDEs). They showed that the accretion disks of optical/UV TDEs are large and highly eccentric and suggested that the broad optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-10 Z. Q. Zhou , F. K. Liu , S. Komossa , R. Cao , L. C. Ho , Xian Chen , Shuo Li

We perform non-hydrodynamical 2.5D simulations to study the dynamics of material above accretion disk based on the disk radiation pressure acting on dust. We assume a super-accreting underlying disk with the accretion rate of 10 times the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-21 Mohammad-Hassan Naddaf , Bożena Czerny , Michal Zajaček

We present a detailed three dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation describing the inner region of a disk accreting onto a black hole. To avoid the technical complications of general relativity, the dynamics are treated in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John F. Hawley , Julian H. Krolik

One key question in tidal disruption events theory is that how much of the fallback debris can be accreted to the black hole. Based on radiative hydrodynamic simulations, we study this issue for efficiently `circularized' debris accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 De-Fu Bu , Erlin Qiao , Xiao-Hong Yang

Compact objects are expected to exist in the accretion disks of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), and in the presence of such a dense environment ($\sim 10^{14}\,{\rm cm^{-3}}$), they will form a new kind of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-21 Jian-Min Wang , Jun-Rong Liu , Luis C. Ho , Pu Du