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The Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton (BHL) accretion model is widely used to describe how a compact object accretes material from a companion's stellar wind in binary systems. However, its standard implementation becomes inaccurate when the wind…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-09 Emilio Tejeda , Jesús A. Toalá

(abridged) In the first two papers of this publication series, we present a comprehensive library of synthetic EHT observations and used this library to train and validate Bayesian neural networks for the parameter inference of accreting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-18 M. Janssen , C. -k. Chan , J. Davelaar , M. Wielgus

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

The recent advent of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has made direct imaging of supermassive black holes a reality. Simulated images of black holes produced via general relativistic ray tracing and radiative transfer provide a key…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-13 Z. Gelles , B. S. Prather , D. C. M. Palumbo , M. D. Johnson , G. N. Wong , B. Georgiev

We present an analysis of the fundamental plane of black hole accretion, an empirical correlation of the mass of a black hole ($M$), its 5 GHz radio continuum luminosity ($\nu L_{\nu}$), and its 2-10 keV X-ray power-law continuum luminosity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Kayhan Gültekin , Ashley L. King , Edward M. Cackett , Kristina Nyland , Jon M. Miller , Tiziana Di Matteo , Sera Markoff , Michael P. Rupen

In this paper, we examine the motion of test particles and relativistic accretion mechanisms within the spacetime of a rotating and embedded BH. In this case, the geometric properties of the metric and their dynamical consequences for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-06 Asifa Ashraf , Orhan Donmez , Abdelmalek Bouzenada , Chengxun Yuan , Aylin Caliskan , Gulzoda Rakhimova , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has produced images of two supermassive black holes, Messier~87* (M 87*) and Sagittarius~A* (Sgr A*). The EHT collaboration used these images to indirectly constrain black hole parameters by calibrating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Daniel C. M Palumbo , Zachary Gelles , Paul Tiede , Dominic O. Chang , Dominic W. Pesce , Andrew Chael , Michael D. Johnson

Observations are providing increasingly detailed quantitative information about the accretion flows that power such high energy systems as X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei. Analytic models of such systems must rely on assumptions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. F. Hawley , J. -P. De Villiers

Black holes are believed to be one of the key ingredients of galaxy formation models, but it has been notoriously challenging to simulate them due to the very complex physics and large dynamical range of spatial scales involved. Here we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-28 Michael Curtis , Debora Sijacki

We present a set of simulations of relativistic jets from accretion disk initial setup with a new code in Fortran 90 to get numerical solutions of a system of General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) partial differential equations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-08 R. O. Garcia , S. R. Oliveira

We present a high order one-step ADER-WENO finite volume scheme with space-time adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) for the solution of the special relativistic hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic equations. By adopting a local discontinuous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-21 Olindo Zanotti , Michael Dumbser

Accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in realistic halos is time-variable, governed by turbulence, cooling, and multiphase condensation. In chaotic cold accretion (CCA), clouds and filaments condense out of the hot gas and feed…

Using high-resolution general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations, we investigate accretion flows around spinning black holes and identify three distinct accretion states. Our results suggest the origin of the complex…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Rohan Raha , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Koushik Chatterjee

In this paper, we introduce a novel data augmentation methodology based on Conditional Progressive Generative Adversarial Networks (CPGAN) to generate diverse black hole (BH) images, accounting for variations in spin and electron…

We study low angular momentum, advective accretion flows around a Kerr black hole within the framework of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) in the steady state. By solving the full set of GRMHD equations, we aim to provide a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-07 Gargi Sen , Debaprasad Maity , Santabrata Das

We present two general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics (GRRMHD) simulations of magnetically arrested disks (MADs) around non-spinning ($a_*=0$) and spinning ($a_*=0.9$) supermassive black holes (BHs). In each simulation, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Brandon Curd , Ramesh Narayan

We present high-resolution, three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of the fueling of supermassive black holes in elliptical galaxies from a turbulent medium on galactic scales, taking M87* as a typical case. The simulations use a new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-31 Minghao Guo , James M. Stone , Chang-Goo Kim , Eliot Quataert

Accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galaxy formation simulations is frequently modelled by the Bondi-Hoyle formalism. Here we examine the validity of this approach analytically and numerically. We argue that the character of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Alexander Hobbs , Chris Power , Sergei Nayakshin , Andrew King

Understanding how supermassive black holes (BHs) couple to their host galaxies across a vast spatial and temporal dynamic range remains a central challenge in galaxy evolution. Using the multizone framework -- designed to capture…

We investigate numerical convergence in simulations of magnetically arrested disks around spinning black holes. Using the general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics code Athena++, we study the same system at four resolutions (up to an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-25 Christopher J. White , James M. Stone , Eliot Quataert
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