English
Related papers

Related papers: Bondi accretion in early-type galaxies

200 papers

Primordial black holes (PBH) accretion in the late Universe can lead to significant mass growth. A larger mass further accelerates the accretion radiation output for PBHs with initial masses greater than one solar mass, potentially leading…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Zi-Xuan Zhang , Junsong Cang , Yu Gao , Hong Li

Chaotic cold accretion (CCA) profoundly differs from classic black hole accretion models. Using 3D high-resolution simulations, we probe the impact of rotation on the hot and cold accretion flow in a typical massive galaxy. In the hot mode,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-30 M. Gaspari , F. Brighenti , P. Temi

The luminosities of the centers of nearby elliptical galaxies are very low compared to models of thin disc accretion to their black holes at the Bondi rate, typically a few hundredths to a few tenths of a solar mass per year. This has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jonathan C. Tan , E. G. Blackman

We present three-dimensional calculations of spherically symmetric Bondi accretion onto a stationary supermassive black hole (SMBH) of mass $10^{8}$ $M_{\odot}$ within a radial range of $0.02-10$ pc, using a modified version of the smoothed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-25 J. M. Ramirez-Velasquez , L. Di G. Sigalotti , R. Gabbasov , F. Cruz , J. Klapp

The classic Bondi solution remains a common starting point both for studying black hole growth across cosmic time in cosmological simulations and for smaller scale simulations of AGN feedback. In nature, however, there will be inhomogenous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Tim Waters , Aycin Aykutalp , Daniel Proga , Jarrett Johnson , Hui Li , Joseph Smidt

The radio emission from supermassive black holes in nearby early-type galaxies can be used to test possible explanations for their low luminosities. We calculate the expected contribution from thermal synchrotron emission from hot accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 T. Di Matteo , C. L. Carilli , A. C. Fabian

In this work, we present, for the first time, a numerical study of the Bondi-Hoyle accretion with density gradients in the fully relativistic regime. In this context, we consider accretion onto a Kerr Black Hole (BH) of a supersonic ideal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-03 F. D. Lora-Clavijo , A. Cruz-Osorio , Enrique Moreno Méndez

In order to find an explanation for the radiative quiescence of supermassive black holes in the local Universe, for a sample of nearby galaxies the most accurate estimates are collected for the mass of a central black hole M_BH, the nuclear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Pellegrini

Recently, the issue of the role of the Eddington limit in accretion discs became a matter of debate. While the classical (spherical) Eddington limit is certainly an over-simplification, it is not really clear how to treat it in a flattened…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 D. Heinzeller , W. J. Duschl , S. Mineshige , K. Ohsuga

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

We compare the Bondi spherical accretion model and the Novikov-Thorne thin disc formalism around regular black holes and Simpson-Visser spacetimes, using several equations of state for the accreting fluids. The Bondi model is significantly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Serena Gambino

We consider spherically symmetric accretion onto a small, possibly primordial, black hole residing at the center of a neutron star governed by a cold nuclear equation of state (EOS). We generalize the relativistic Bondi solution for such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Sophia C. Schnauck , Thomas W. Baumgarte , Stuart L. Shapiro

The rate at which matter flows into a galactic nucleus during early phases of galaxy evolution can sometimes exceed the Eddington limit of the growing central black hole by several orders of magnitude. We discuss the necessary conditions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Mitchell C. Begelman , Marta Volonteri

We investigate relativistic Bondi accretion in the Simpson-Visser spacetime, which, via a single parameter $\ell$, interpolates between the Schwarzschild, regular black hole, extremal and wormhole regimes. First, we analyze the neutral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Serena Gambino , Roberto Giambò , Orlando Luongo

The mass accretion rate of transonic spherical accretion flow onto compact objects such as black holes is known as the Bondi accretion rate(Mdot_B), which is determined only by the density and the temperature of gas at the outer boundary.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Myeong-Gu Park

Observations of luminous quasars at $z\gtrsim7$ reveal supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with inferred masses $M_{\rm BH}\sim10^9 \, M_\odot$ formed within the first $\sim700$~Myr of cosmic history. Standard growth channels \textrm{ -- }…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 Chian-Shu Chen , Feng-Li Lin

By means of a one-zone evolutionary model, we study the co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies, as a function of the accretion radiative efficiency, dark matter content, and cosmological infall of gas. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 E. Lusso , L. Ciotti

One possible scenario for the formation of massive black holes (BHs) in the early Universe is from the direct collapse of primordial gas in atomic-cooling dark matter haloes in which the gas is unable to cool efficiently via molecular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jarrett L. Johnson , Sadegh Khochfar , Thomas H. Greif , Fabrice Durier

Nearby galactic nuclei are observed to be very much dimmer than active galactic nuclei in distant galaxies. The Chandra X-ray Observatory has provided a definitive explanation for why this is so. With its excellent angular resolution,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ramesh Narayan

Cooling flows in galaxy clusters and isolated elliptical galaxies are a source of mass for fueling accretion onto a central supermassive black hole. We calculate the dynamics of accreting matter in the combined gravitational potential of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eliot Quataert , Ramesh Narayan