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We study the effects of a thin gaseous accretion disk on the inspiral of a stellar--mass black hole into a supermassive black hole. We construct a phenomenological angular momentum transport equation that reproduces known disk effects. Disk…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Nicolás Yunes , Bence Kocsis , Abraham Loeb , Zoltán Haiman

Ultrarelativistic collisions of black holes are ideal gedanken experiments to study the nonlinearities of general relativity. In this paper we use semianalytical tools to better understand the nature of these collisions and the emitted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Tanja Hinderer , Madalena Lemos , Frans Pretorius , Ulrich Sperhake , Nicolas Yunes

As 2 black holes bound to each other in a close binary approach merger their inspiral time becomes shorter than the characteristic inflow time of surrounding orbiting matter. Using an innovative technique in which we represent the changing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Scott C. Noble , Bruno C. Mundim , Hiroyuki Nakano , Julian H. Krolik , Manuela Campanelli , Yosef Zlochower , Nicolás Yunes

Environment, such as the accretion disk, could modify the signal of the gravitational wave from the astrophysical black hole binaries. In this article, we model the matter field around the intermediate-mass binary black holes by means of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-13 Qing Yang , Li-Wei Ji , Bin Hu , Zhou-Jian Cao , Rong-Gen Cai

We study the accretion of a Schwarzschild black hole due to spherically symmetric perturbations sourced by a minimally coupled massless scalar field. The backreaction of the black hole to low-frequency ingoing scalar waves is computed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-24 Marco de Cesare , Roberto Oliveri

We use a relativistic ray-tracing code to calculate the light curves observed from a global general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic simulation of an accretion flow onto a Schwarzschild black hole. We apply three basic emission models to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jeremy D. Schnittman , Julian H. Krolik , John F. Hawley

An accretion flow onto a supermassive black hole is the primary process powering quasars. However, a geometry of this flow is not well constrained. Both global MHD simulations and observations suggest that there are several emission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-08 Aneta Siemiginowska

We calculate eclipsing light curves for accretion flows around a rotating black hole taking into account the atmospheric effects of the companion star. In the cases of no atmospheric effects, the light curves contain the information of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Rohta Takahashi , Ken-Ya Watarai

The merger process of a binary black hole system can have a strong impact on a circumbinary disk. In the present work we study the effect of both central mass reduction (due to the energy loss through gravitational waves) and a possible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-02 Miguel Megevand , Matthew Anderson , Juhan Frank , Eric W. Hirschmann , Luis Lehner , Steven L. Liebling , Patrick M. Motl , David Neilsen

The optical characteristics of the Kazakov-Solodukhin (KS) black hole (BH) surrounded by a thin disk is investigated. By utilizing the ray-tracing technique, we derive the the direct and secondary images to illustrate the influence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-02 Yu-Xiang Huang , Sen Guo , Yu-Hao Cui , Qing-Quan Jiang , Kai Lin

Numerical calculations of merging black hole binaries indicate that asymmetric emission of gravitational radiation can kick the merged black hole at up to thousands of km/s, and a number of systems have been observed recently whose…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Marcelo Ponce , Joshua A. Faber , James C. Lombardi

We study optical phenomena related to appearance of Keplerian accretion discs orbiting Kerr superspinars predicted by the string theory. The superspinar exterior is described by the standard Kerr naked singularity geometry breaking the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Zdenek Stuchlik , Jan Schee

Circumbinary disks crucially affect the orbital and electromagnetic properties of binary systems across the universe, from stars in our galactic neighborhood to supermassive black hole binaries formed as the result of tumultuous galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-16 Alexander J. Dittmann , Geoffrey Ryan , Luciano Combi

In this paper we present a method to study the frequency shift of signals sent from near a Schwarzschild black hole that grows or shrinks through accretion. We construct the numerical solution of Einstein's equations sourced by a spherical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-18 F. S. Guzman , I. Alvarez-Rios , J. A. Gonzalez

X-ray irradiation of the accretion disc leads to strong reflection features, which are then broadened and distorted by relativistic effects. We present a detailed, general relativistic approach to model this irradiation for different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Thomas Dauser , Javier Garcia , Jörn Wilms , Moritz Böck , Laura W. Brenneman , Maurizio Falanga , Keigo Fukumura , Christopher S. Reynolds

Studies of black hole superradiance often focus on the growth of a cloud in isolation, accompanied by the spin-down of the black hole. In this paper, we consider the additional effect of the accretion of matter and angular momentum from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-26 Lam Hui , Y. T. Albert Law , Luca Santoni , Guanhao Sun , Giovanni Maria Tomaselli , Enrico Trincherini

The accelerated expansion of the universe is ascribed to the existence of dark energy. Black holes accretion of dark energy induces a mass change proportional to the energy density and pressure of the background dark energy fluid. The time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-05 Laura Mersini-Houghton , Adam Kelleher

We study time evolution and gravitational wave emission properties of a black hole orbiting {\it inside} an accretion disk surrounding a massive black hole. We simultaneously solve the structure equations of the accretion disk in presence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-09 Sandip K. Chakrabarti

Given the absence of observations of black hole binaries, it is critical that the full range of accessible parameter space be explored in anticipation of future observation with gravitational wave detectors. To this end, we compile the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-29 Janna Levin , Sean T. McWilliams , Hugo Contreras

In this paper, perturbations of an accretion disk by a star orbiting around a black hole are studied. We report on a numerical experiment, which has been carried out by using a parallel-machine code originally developed by D\"{o}nmez…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Orhan Donmez