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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

Discovery of high-redshift (z > 6) supermassive black holes (BHs) may indicate that the rapid (or super-Eddington) gas accretion has aided their quick growth. Here, we study such rapid accretion of the primordial gas on to intermediate-mass…

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

We obtained thermal equilibrium solutions for optically thin, two-temperature black hole accretion disks incorporating magnetic fields. The main objective of this study is to explain the bright/hard state observed during the bright/slow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Hiroshi Oda , Mami Machida , Kenji E. Nakamura , Ryoji Matsumoto

The high-energy particle production in the accretion flow onto black holes can be a key physics to explain the high-energy neutrino background. While the single-zone approximation has been commonly adopted in studies of the high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-15 Tomohisa Kawashima , Katsuaki Asano

Black holes (BHs) surrounded by accretion disks are present in the Universe at different scales of masses, from microquasars up to the active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The current picture remains ad hoc due to the complexity of the magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 Mikołaj Grzędzielski , Agnieszka Janiuk , Bożena Czerny , Qingwen Wu

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…

In many investigations involving accretion on a central point mass, ranging from observational studies to cosmological simulations, including semi-analytical modelling, the classical Bondi accretion theory is the standard tool widely…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Antonio Mancino , Luca Ciotti , Silvia Pellegrini

Accretion of gas and interaction of matter and radiation are at the heart of many questions pertaining to black hole (BH) growth and coevolution of massive BHs and their host galaxies. To answer them it is critical to quantify how the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-04 KwangHo Park , John H. Wise , Tamara Bogdanović

We perform three general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of black hole accretion designed to test how sensitive results are to grid resolution in the jet region. The cases differ only in numerics, modelling the same physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Christopher J. White , Fiona Chrystal

The exact time-dependent solution is obtained for a magnetic field growth during a spherically symmetric accretion into a black hole (BH) with a Schwarzschild metric. Magnetic field is increasing with time, changing from the initially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-03 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

We present a model of optically thin, two-temperature, accretion flows using an exact Monte Carlo treatment of global Comptonization, with seed photons from synchrotron and bremsstrahlung emission, as well as with a fully general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Niedzwiecki , F. -G. Xie , A. A. Zdziarski

Matter falling onto black holes is hot, fully ionized and has to be necessarily transonic. Since the electrons are responsible for radiative cooling via processes like synchrotron, bremsstrahlung and inverse-Compton, therefore the electron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 Shilpa Sarkar , Indranil Chattopadhyay

The gravitational decoupling method systematically generates hairy modifications to the solutions in general relativity due to new gravitational sources. In view of the recent advances in astronomical observations, these hairy solutions are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-13 Zhen Li , Xiao-Kan Guo

Recent advances in black hole astrophysics, particularly the first visual evidence of a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87 by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), and the detection of an orbiting "hot spot" nearby the…

For the first time in literature, we provide an exact analytical scheme for calculating the analogous Hawking temperature and surface gravity for general relativistic accretion onto astrophysical black holes. Our calculation may bridge the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tapas Kumar Das

We use new central stellar velocity dispersions and nuclear X-ray and Halpha luminosities for the Palomar survey of nearby galaxies to investigate the distribution of nuclear bolometric luminosities and Eddington ratios for their central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-07-17 Luis C. Ho

Recent developments in compact object astrophysics, especially the discovery of merging neutron stars by LIGO, the imaging of the black hole in M87 by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and high precision astrometry of the Galactic Center at…

We compare numerical methods for solving the radiative transfer equation in the context of the photoionization of intergalactic gaseous hydrogen and helium by a central radiating source. Direct integration of the radiative transfer equation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Ka-Hou Leong , Avery Meiksin , Althea Lai , K. H. To

We present a set of eleven two-temperature, radiative, general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (2TGRRMHD) simulations of the black hole M87* in the magnetically arrested (MAD) state, surveying different values of the black hole spin $a_*$.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-24 Andrew Chael

A finite temperature extension of the effective holographic models for QCD (EHQCD), proposed in Ref.[1], is investigated in the present work. EHQCD models are characterized by two parameters, the conformal dimension of the relevant operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-25 Alfonso Ballon-Bayona , Luis A. H. Mamani , Alex S. Miranda , Vilson T. Zanchin