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We describe new optically thin solutions for rotating accretion flows around black holes and neutron stars. These solutions are advection dominated, so that most of the viscously dissipated energy is advected radially with the flow. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Ramesh Narayan , Insu Yi

By performing two-dimensional axisymmetric general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations with spin parameter $a^*$ varying from -0.9 to 0.9, we investigate the dependence on the black hole spin of the energy flow from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Aoto Utsumi , Ken Ohsuga , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Yuta Asahina

We report on next phase of our study of rotating accretion flows onto black holes. We consider hydrodynamical (HD) accretion flows with a spherically symmetric density distribution at the outer boundary but with spherical symmetry broken by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Monika Moscibrodzka , Daniel Proga

We examine the effects of thermal conduction on relativistic, magnetized, viscous, advective accretion flows around rotating black holes considering bremsstrahlung and synchrotron cooling processes. Assuming the toroidal component of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-28 Monu Singh , Camelia Jana , Santabrata Das

We present time-dependent simulations of a two-phase accretion flow around a black hole. The accretion flow initially is composed of an optically thick and cool disc close to the midplane, while on top and below the disc there is a hot and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Mayer , J. E. Pringle

It is likely that nearly all central galactic massive and supermassive black holes are nonradiative: their accretion luminosities are orders of magnitude below what can be explained by efficient black hole accretion within their ambient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Tanim Islam

Just as correlations between fluctuating radial and azimuthal velocities produce a coherent stress contributing to the angular momentum transport in turbulent accretion disks, correlations in the velocity and temperature fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Steven A. Balbus

Multiwavelength observations of Galactic black hole transients have opened a new path to understanding the physics of the innermost parts of the accretion flows. While the processes giving rise to their X-ray continuum have been studied…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-19 Alexandra Veledina , Juri Poutanen , Indrek Vurm

Supermassive black holes in galaxies spend majority of their lifetime in the low-luminosity regime, powered by hot accretion flow. Strong winds launched from the hot accretion flow have the potential to play an important role in active…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-04 Fangzheng Shi , Feng Yuan , Zhiyuan Li , Zhao Su , Suoqing Ji

We perform two-dimensional radiation hydrodynamical simulations of accretion flows onto black holes (BHs) at the nuclei of protogalaxies, and study the impact of mechanical and radiative feedback on rapid growth of BHs. The outflows deposit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 Eishun Takeo , Kohei Inayoshi , Shin Mineshige

At luminosities below a few percent of Eddington, accreting black holes switch to a hard spectral state which is very different from the soft blackbody-like spectral state that is found at higher luminosities. The hard state is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ramesh Narayan

Accreting black holes in galactic X-ray sources are surrounded by hot plasma. The innermost part of these systems is likely a corona with different temperatures for ions and electrons. In the so-called low-hard state, hot electrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 G. E. Romero , F. L. Vieyro , G. S. Vila

We study the properties of rotating accretion flows onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs) using axisymmetric two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations with radiative cooling and BH feedback. The simulations resolve the accretion dynamics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-16 Kohei Inayoshi , Kohei Ichikawa , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Rolf Kuiper

We carried out three-dimensional global resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the cooling instability in optically thin hot black hole accretion flows by assuming bremsstrahlung cooling. General relativistic effects are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Mami Machida , Kenji Nakamura , Ryoji Matsumoto

We present three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the fueling of supermassive black holes in elliptical galaxies from a turbulent cooling medium on galactic scales, taking M87* as a typical case. We find that the mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Minghao Guo , James M. Stone , Eliot Quataert , Chang-Goo Kim

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

We explore the evolution in power of black holes of all masses, and their associated jets, within the scheme of an accretion rate-dependent state transition. Below a critical value of the accretion rate all systems are assumed to undergo a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Heino Falcke , Elmar Koerding , Sera Markoff

Recent hydrodynamical simulations of radiatively inefficient black hole accretion flows with low viscosity have demonstrated that these flows differ significantly from those described by an advection-dominated model. The black hole flows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marek A. Abramowicz , Igor V. Igumenshchev

An essential factor in determining the flow characteristics of an accretion flow is its angular momentum. According to the angular momentum of the flow, semi-analytical analysis suggests various types of accretion solutions. It is critical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-28 Indu K. Dihingia , Yosuke Mizuno

Most general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of black hole (BH) hot accretion flows are initialized with small rotating tori and produce stable jets with only small fluctuations. However, recent studies using larger scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-21 Hyerin Cho , Ramesh Narayan