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We present results from two long-duration GRMHD simulations of advection-dominated accretion around a non-spinning black hole. The first simulation was designed to avoid significant accumulation of magnetic flux around the black hole. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Ramesh Narayan , Aleksander Sadowski , Robert F. Penna , Akshay K. Kulkarni

We present 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic(GRMHD) simulations of zero angular momentum accretion around a rapidly rotating black hole, modified by the presence of initially uniform magnetic fields. We consider serveral angles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-17 Sean M. Ressler , Eliot Quataert , Christopher J. White , Omer Blaes

We describe some recent results on the evolution of accretion disks around black holes and neutron stars obtained in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations in general relativity (GR) with the inclusion of radiation (GRRMHD).

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Włodek Kluźniak , David Abarca , Bhupendra Mishra

Accretion of magnetized gas on compact astrophysical objects such as black holes has been successfully modeled using general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations. These simulations have largely been performed in the Kerr…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-07 Prashant Kocherlakota , Ramesh Narayan , Koushik Chatterjee , Alejandro Cruz-Osorio , Yosuke Mizuno

Using three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations with electron and proton thermodynamics and an electron cooling function, we probe the inner radial and vertical structure of weakly magnetized geometrically thin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-28 A. Hankla , J. Dexter , N. Scepi

Non-VLBI measurements of Faraday rotation at mm wavelengths have been used to constrain mass accretion rates ($\mdot$) onto supermassive black holes in the centre of the Milky Way and in the centre of M87. We constructed general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Monika Moscibrodzka , Jason Dexter , Jordy Davelaar , Heino Falcke

We present a global three-dimensional radiation magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) simulation of a circumbinary disk (CBD) around a massive black hole binary (MBHB) with a total mass $2 \times 10^7\,M_{\odot}$ and mass ratio $0.1$, separated by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-17 Vishal Tiwari , Chi-Ho Chan , Tamara Bogdanović , Yan-Fei Jiang , Shane W. Davis

Recent general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of accretion onto black holes have shown that, contrary to the basic assumptions of the Novikov-Thorne model, there can be substantial magnetic stress throughout the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Scott C. Noble , Julian H. Krolik , Jeremy D. Schnittman , John F. Hawley

Recent advances in black hole astrophysics, particularly the first visual evidence of a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87 by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), and the detection of an orbiting "hot spot" nearby the…

We study the two-temperature magnetized advective accretion flow around the Kerr black holes. During accretion, ions are heated up due to viscous dissipation, and when Coulomb coupling becomes effective, they transfer a part of their energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 Indu K. Dihingia , Santabrata Das , Geethu Prabhakar , Samir Mandal

We use global three dimensional radiation magneto-hydrodynamical simulations to study accretion disks onto a $5\times 10^8M_{\odot}$ black hole with accretion rates varying from $\sim 250L_{Edd}/c^2$ to $1500 L_{Edd}/c^2$. We form the disks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 Yan-Fei Jiang , James Stone , Shane W. Davis

The episodic dynamics of the magnetic eruption of a spinning black hole (BH) accretion disks and its associated intense shapeup of their jets is studied via three-dimensional general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD). The embedded…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-16 Akira Mizuta , Toshikazu Ebisuzaki , Toshiki Tajima , Shigehiro Nagataki

We present our first numerical results of axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic simulations for neutrino-cooled accretion tori around rotating black holes in general relativity. We consider tori of mass $\sim 0.1$--0.4$M_{\odot}$ around a black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 M. Shibata , Y. Sekiguchi , R. Takahashi

We present a novel approach to study the global structure of steady, axisymmetric, advective, geometrically thin, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) accretion flow around black holes in full general relativity (GR). Considering ideal MHD conditions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 Samik Mitra , Debaprasad Maity , Indu Kalpa Dihingia , Santabrata Das

In the past few years, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has provided the first-ever event horizon-scale images of the supermassive black holes (BHs) (M87*) and Sagittarius A$^*$ (Sgr A*). The next-generation EHT project is an extension of…

General Relativistic (GR) Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of black hole accretion find significant magnetic stresses near and inside the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO), suggesting that such flows could radiate in a manner…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kris Beckwith , John Hawley , Julian Krolik

(Abridged) We study stability of gas accretion in Active Galactic Nuclei. Our grid based simulations cover a radial range from 0.1 to 200 pc. Here, as in previous studies by our group, we include gas radiative cooling as well as heating by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Moscibrodzka , D. Proga

We present the results of a new series of global 3D relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of thin accretion disks around spinning black holes. The disks have aspect ratios of $H/R\sim 0.05$ and spin parameters $a/M=0, 0.5,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Jeremy D. Schnittman , Julian H. Krolik , Scott C. Noble

The galaxy M 87 harbors a kiloparsec-scale relativistic jet, whose origin coincides with a supermassive black hole. Observational mm-VLBI campaigns are capable of resolving the jet-launching region at the scale of the event horizon. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-27 J. Davelaar , H. Olivares , O. Porth , T. Bronzwaer , M. Janssen , F. Roelofs , Y. Mizuno , C. M. Fromm , H. Falcke , L. Rezzolla

The accretion flow around the Galactic Center black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is expected to have an electron temperature that is distinct from the ion temperature, due to weak Coulomb coupling in the low-density plasma. We present four…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-31 Andrew Chael , Michael E. Rowan , Ramesh Narayan , Michael D. Johnson , Lorenzo Sironi