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To investigate the formation mechanism of relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei and micro-quasars, we have developed a new general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic code in Kerr geometry. Here we report on the first numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Shinji Koide , David L. Meier , Kazunari Shibata , Takahiro Kudoh

A neutrino-dominated accretion disk around a stellar-mass black hole (BH) can power a gamma-ray burst (GRB) via annihilation of neutrinos launched from the disk. For the BH hyperaccretion system, high accretion rate should trigger the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-29 Cui-Ying Song , Tong Liu , Wei-Min Gu , Shu-Jin Hou , Jian-Xiang Tian , Ju-Fu Lu

Relativistic jets from compact objects are ubiquitous phenomena in the Unvierse, but their driving mechanism has been an enigmatic issue over many decades. Two basic models have been extensively discussed: magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) jets and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 S. Takeuchi , K. Ohsuga , S. Mineshige

Evidence of neutron stars with deconfined quark-matter cores suggest a new pathway for the evolution of black holes. New theories about the cores of neutron stars support the idea that quarkonium is likely to grow there as the neutron star…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-04 Zachary R. Smith , Neil F. Comins

Recent work has linked the quiescent luminosities and hard/soft spectral state switches of neutron stars (NSs) to their spinning magnetic fields. It is shown here that the quiescent luminosities and spectral switches of galactic black hole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stanley L. Robertson

We present new developments of the simple model of the central engine of GRB, proposed recently. The model is based on minimal assumptions: some rotating compact relativistic object at the center and stable perturbations of its rotating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-01-05 P. P. Fiziev , D. R. Staicova

Observations suggest that relativistic particles play a fundamental role in the dynamics of jets emerging from active galactic nuclei as well as in their interaction with the intracluster medium. However, no general consensus exists…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 J. A. de Freitas Pacheco , J. Gariel , G. Marcilhacy , N. O. Santos

Two types of relativistic jets are suggested to form near accreting black holes: a potentially ultrarelativistic Poynting-dominated jet and a Poynting-baryon jet. One source of jet matter is electron-positron pair production, which is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jonathan C. McKinney

Supermassive black hole (SMBH) coalescences are ubiquitous in the history of the Universe and often exhibit strong accretion activities and powerful jets. These SMBH mergers are also promising candidates for future gravitational wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Chengchao Yuan , Kohta Murase , Shigeo S. Kimura , Péter Mészáros

Binary black holes embedded within the accretion disks that fuel active galactic nuclei (AGN) are promising progenitors for the source of gravitational wave events detected by LIGO/VIRGO. Several recent studies have shown that when these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-19 Josh Calcino , Adam M. Dempsey , Alexander J. Dittmann , Hui Li

Improved observational precision in relativistic jets has underscored the need for tractable theoretical models. In this study, we construct a semi-analytical hybrid jet model that incorporates both black hole-driven and disk-driven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Yu Song , Yehui Hou , Lei Huang , Bin Chen

Accretion disks in active galactic nuclei (AGN) are promising sites for mergers of stellar-mass black holes (BHs) detectable via gravitational waves (GWs). These environments facilitate both in-situ formation and dynamical capture of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Hiromichi Tagawa , Zoltán Haiman , Shigeo S. Kimura , Hassen M. Yesuf , Hengxiao Guo

Supermassive binary black holes are a key target for the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna and excellent multimessenger sources across the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum. However, unique features of their EM emission that are needed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-14 Vikram Manikantan , Vasileios Paschalidis , Gabriele Bozzola

Compact relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei offer an effective tool for investigating the physics of nuclear regions in galaxies. The emission properties, dynamics, and evolution of jets in AGN are closely connected to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrei Lobanov

Rotating magnetized compact objects and their accretion discs can generate strong toroidal magnetic fields driving highly magnetized plasmas into relativistic jets. Of significant concern, however, has been that a strong toroidal field in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jonathan C. McKinney , Roger D. Blandford

A Black Hole (BH) is a spacetime region with a horizon and where geodesics converge to a singularity. At such a point, the gravitational field equations fail. As an alternative to the problem of the singularity arises the existence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 W. A. Rojas C. , J. R. Arenas S

We have recently proposed a model for a regular black hole, or an ultra-compact object, that is premised on having maximally negative radial pressure throughout the entirety of the object's interior. This model can be viewed as that of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-19 Ram Brustein , A. J. M. Medved , Tamar Simhon

Massive black holes are believed to reside at the centres of most galaxies. They can be- come detectable by accretion of matter, either continuously from a large gas reservoir or impulsively from the tidal disruption of a passing star, and…

Along the last ten years, a general relativistic method has been developed to generate analytical expressions for the black hole (BH) parameters in terms of observables, namely the frequency shift of photons emitted by orbiting test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Adriana González-Juárez , Alfredo Herrera-Aguilar

The aim of this work is to demonstrate the properties of the magnetospheric model around Kerr blackholes (BHs), so-called the fly-wheel (rotation driven) model. The fly-wheel engine of the BH-accretion disk system is applied to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Shin-ya Nitta