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We use results from simulations of the production of magnetohydrodynamic jets around black holes to derive the cosmic spin history of the most massive black holes. We assume that the efficiency of jet production is a monotonic function of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Alejo Martinez-Sansigre , Steve Rawlings

Supermassive binary black holes in galactic centers are potential multimessenger sources in gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation. To find such objects, isolating unique electromagnetic signatures of their accretion flow is key.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Sean M. Ressler , Luciano Combi , Bart Ripperda , Elias R. Most

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

We carried out two dimensional high-resolution magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of an accretion disk around a weakly magnetized neutron star. General relativistic effects are taken into account by using pseudo-Newtonian potential of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Y. Kato , H. R. Hayashi , S. Miyaji , R. Matsumoto

The correlated and coupled dynamics of accretion and outflow around black holes (BHs) are essentially governed by the fundamental laws of conservation as outflow extracts matter, momentum and energy from the accretion region. Here we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-11 Shubhrangshu Ghosh

This is the first in a series of papers that investigate the properties of accretion flows in the Kerr metric through three-dimensional, general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of tori with a near-Keplerian initial angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jean-Pierre De Villiers , John F. Hawley , Julian H. Krolik

Magnetic fields surrounding black holes are responsible for various astrophysical phenomena related to accretion processes and relativistic jets. Depending on the source, the configuration of the field lines may differ significantly,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-15 Saltanat Kenzhebayeva , Saken Toktarbay , Arman Tursunov , Martin Kološ

We present the first collisionless realization of two-dimensional axisymmetric black hole accretion consistent with a persistent magnetically arrested disk state. The accretion flow, consisting of an ion-electron disk plasma combined with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-20 Jesse Vos , Benoit Cerutti , Monika Moscibrodzka , Kyle Parfrey

We present a set of six general relativistic, multi-frequency, radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of thin accretion disks with different target mass accretion rates around black holes with spins ranging from non-rotating to rapidly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-02 P. Chris Fragile , Peter Anninos , Nathaniel Roth , Bhupendra Mishra

The design and implementation of a new framework for adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) calculations is described. It is intended primarily for applications in astrophysical fluid dynamics, but its flexible and modular design enables its use…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 James M. Stone , Kengo Tomida , Christopher J. White , Kyle G. Felker

Numerical simulations of weakly magnetized and strongly magnetized relativistic jets embedded in a weakly magnetized and strongly magnetized stationary or weakly relativistic (v = c/2) sheath have been performed. A magnetic field parallel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yosuke Mizuno , Philip Hardee , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa

In this paper, we present the stationary axisymmetric configuration of a resistive magnetised thick accretion disc in the vicinity of external gravity and intrinsic dipolar magnetic field of a slowly rotating black hole. The plasma is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Mahboobeh Shaghaghian

This is the fourth paper of our series of works studying winds from hot accretion flows around black holes. In the first two papers, we have shown the existence of strong winds in hot accretion flows using hydrodynamical and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Hai Yang , Feng Yuan , Ye-fei Yuan , Christopher J. White

We present two-temperature, radiative general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of Magnetically Arrested Discs (MAD) that launch powerful relativistic jets. The mass accretion rates of our simulations are scaled to match the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-11 Andrew Chael , Ramesh Narayan , Michael D. Johnson

We present a detailed temporal analysis of a set of hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of geometrically-thin (h/r~0.05) black hole accretion disks. The black hole potential is approximated by the Paczynski-Wiita…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Christopher S. Reynolds , M. Coleman Miller

We investigate how magnetic field variations around accreting black holes on event horizon scales affect the morphology of magnetically-driven jet on larger scales. By performing radiative transfer calculations on general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-24 Yuh Tsunetoe , Ramesh Narayan , Angelo Ricarte

We perform a full 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamical (GRMHD) simulation of an equal-mass, spinning, binary black hole approaching merger, surrounded by a circumbinary disk and with mini-disks around each black hole. For this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-13 Luciano Combi , Federico G. Lopez Armengol , Manuela Campanelli , Scott C. Noble , Mark Avara , Julian H. Krolik , Dennis Bowen

In this paper, steady-state MHD calculations of non-relativistic magnetized accretion discs driving jets are presented. For the first time, an energy equation describing the effects of entropy generation along streamlines is included. Using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fabien Casse , Jonathan Ferreira

We use global magnetohydrodynamic simulations to study the influence of net vertical magnetic fields on the structure of geometrically thin ($H/r \approx 0.05$) accretion disks in the Newtonian limit. We consider initial mid-plane gas to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-23 Bhupendra Mishra , Mitchell C. Begelman , Philip J. Armitage , Jacob B. Simon

The paradigm in which magnetic fields play a crucial role in launching/collimating outflows in many astrophysical objects continues to gain support. However, semi-analytical models including the effect of magnetic fields on the dynamics and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-13 Chiara Ceccobello , Yuri Cavecchi , Martin H. M. Heemskerk , Sera Markoff , Peter Polko , David L. Meier