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The Ultra Luminous X-ray Sources (ULXs) are unique in exhibiting moderately bright X-ray luminosities, $L_{\rm x} \sim 10^{38-40} {\rm erg~s^{-1}}$, and relatively high blackbody temperatures, $\Tin \sim 1.0-2.0 {\rm keV}$. From the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ken-ya Watarai , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Shin Mineshige

Recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a population of compact, red object ($z\sim 4\text{--}7$) known as little red dots (LRDs). The presence of broad Balmer emission lines indicates active galactic nuclei…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-03 Daisaburo Kido , Kunihito Ioka , Kenta Hotokezaka , Kohei Inayoshi , Christopher M. Irwin

Wind and jet are important medium of AGN feedback thus it is crucial to obtain their properties for the feedback study. In this paper we investigate the properties of wind and jet launched from a magnetized super-Eddington accretion flow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Hai Yang , Feng Yuan , Tom Kwan , Lixin Dai

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

Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are X-ray binary systems containing an accreting neutron star (NS) or black hole emitting at luminosities above the Eddington limit of a $10M_{\odot}$ black hole. Approximately 1900 (either confirmed or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-28 M. Veresvarska , M. Imbrogno , R. Amato , G. L. Israel , S. Scaringi , P. Casella , D. de Martino , F. Fürst , A. Gúrpide Lasheras , C. Knigge , M. J. Middleton

Ultraluminous pulsars are a definite proof that persistent super-Eddington accretion occurs in nature. They support the scenario according to which most Ultraluminous X-ray Sources (ULXs) are super-Eddington accretors of stellar mass rather…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-04 P. Kosec , C. Pinto , D. J. Walton , A. C. Fabian , M. Bachetti , M. Brightman , F. Fürst , B. W. Grefenstette

X-ray binaries with black hole (BH) accretors and massive star donors at short orbital periods of a few days can evolve into close binary BH systems (BBH) that merge within the Hubble time through stable mass transfer evolution. From…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Jakub Klencki , Gijs Nelemans

The periodic precession (162--day) and nodding (6.3--day) motions of the jets in SS433 are driven in the outer regions of the disc, whereas the jets themselves, being relativistic, are launched near the black hole at the disc centre. Given…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. C. Begelman , A. R. King , J. E. Pringle

We consider the three currently known pulsing ultraluminous X--ray sources (PULXs). We show that in one of them the observed spinup rate requires super--Eddington accretion rates at the magnetospheric radius, even if magnetar--strength…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-22 Andrew King , Jean-Pierre Lasota , Wlodek Kluzniak

The mass density of massive black holes observed locally is consistent with the hard X-ray Background provided that most of the radiation produced during their growth was absorbed by surrounding gas. A simple model is proposed here for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. C. Fabian

Recent studies have indicated that the emission of gravitational waves at the merger of two black holes gives a kick to the final black hole. If the supermassive black hole at the center of a disk galaxy is kicked but the velocity is not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yutaka Fujita

Markarian 817 is a bright and variable Seyfert-1.2 active galactic nucleus (AGN). X-ray monitoring of Mrk 817 with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory in 2022 revealed that the source flux had declined to a lower level than recorded at any…

We propose that the growth of supermassive black holes is associated mainly with brief episodes of highly super-Eddington infall of gas ("hyperaccretion"). This gas is not swallowed in real time, but forms an envelope of matter around the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Mitchell C. Begelman

Using long-duration general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of radiatively inefficient accretion discs, the energy, momentum and mass outflow rates from such systems are estimated. Outflows occur via two fairly distinct modes:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Sadowski , R. Narayan , R. Penna , Y. Zhu

The observational evidence that Super-Massive Black Holes ($M_{\bullet} \sim 10^{9-10} \, \mathrm{M_{\odot}}$) are already in place less than $1 \, \mathrm{Gyr}$ after the Big Bang poses stringent time constraints on the growth efficiency…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-22 Fabio Pacucci , Marta Volonteri , Andrea Ferrara

Ultra-luminous Compact X-ray Sources (ULXs) in nearby spiral galaxies and Galactic superluminal jet sources share the common spectral characteristic that they have unusually high disk temperatures which cannot be explained in the framework…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ken Ebisawa , Piotr Zycki , Aya Kubota , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Ken-ya Watarai

The observed super-massive black hole (SMBH) mass -- galaxy velocity dispersion ($M_{\rm bh} - \sigma$) correlation may be established when winds/outflows from the SMBH drive gas out of the potential wells of classical bulges. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Sergei Nayakshin , Chris Power

We investigate the properties of accretion flows onto a black hole (BH) with a mass of $M_{\rm BH}$ embedded in an initially uniform gas cloud with a density of $n_{\infty}$ in order to study rapid growth of BHs in the early Universe. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-30 Eishun Takeo , Kohei Inayoshi , Ken Ohsuga , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Shin Mineshige

With the recent discoveries of massive and highly luminous quasars at high redshifts ($z\sim7$; e.g. Mortlock et al. 2011), the question of how black holes (BHs) grow in the early Universe has been cast in a new light. In order to grow BHs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-19 M. Brightman , M. Bachetti , H. P. Earnshaw , F. Fürst , J. García , B. Grefenstette , M. Heida , E. Kara , K. K. Madsen , M. J. Middleton , D. Stern , F. Tombesi , D. J. Walton

(abridged) Accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at close to the Eddington rate can influence the host galaxy via powerful winds. Theoretical models of such winds can explain observational correlations between SMBHs and their host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-30 K. Zubovas , M. Tartėnas , M. A. Bourne