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Context: Accreting black holes (BHs) may be surrounded by a highly magnetized plasma threaded by a poloidal magnetic field. Non-thermal flares and high energy components could originate from a hot, collisionless and nearly force-free…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-27 I. El Mellah , B. Cerutti , B. Crinquand , K. Parfrey

Spherical (nonrotating) accretion flows with small-scale magnetic fields have been investigated using three-dimensional, time-dependent MHD simulations. These simulations have been designed to model high-resolution (quasi) steady accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Igor V. Igumenshchev

Accretion onto supermassive black holes (BHs) can launch relativistic jets that inject energy and momentum into their surroundings. Understanding how such feedback shapes large-scale accretion is key to bridging observations from galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-02 Aretaios Lalakos , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Elias R. Most , Bart Ripperda , Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska

We present the second release of the $\texttt{GR-Athena++}$ waveform catalog, comprising four new quasi-circular, non-precessing, spinning binary black hole simulations. These simulations are performed at high resolutions and represent a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-09 Estuti Shukla , Alireza Rashti , Rossella Gamba , David Radice , Koustav Chandra

We present general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of equal-mass spinning black hole binary mergers embedded in a magnetized gas cloud. We focus on the effect of the spin orientation relative to the orbital angular momentum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-05 Federico Cattorini , Sofia Maggioni , Bruno Giacomazzo , Francesco Haardt , Monica Colpi , Stefano Covino

We present a novel spectral solver for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics on dynamical spacetimes. By combining a high order discontinuous spectral method on mapped Chebyshev Fourier grids, our scheme attains exponential convergence.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Beibei Li

Black hole systems, comprised of a black hole, accretion disk, and collimated outflow are studied here. Three AGN samples including 753 AGN, and 102 measurements of 4 GBH are studied. Applying the theoretical considerations described by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-04 Ruth A. Daly

In certain scenarios, the accreted angular momentum of plasma onto a black hole could be low; however, how the accretion dynamics depend on the angular momentum content of the plasma is still not fully understood. We present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-23 Ho-Sang Chan , Prasun Dhang , Jason Dexter , Mitchell C. Begelman

We perform general relativistic simulations of magnetized, accreting disks onto spinning binary black holes (BHBHs) with different mass ratios (MRs). The magnitude of the individual BH spins are all $\chi= 0.26$ and lie either along the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-14 Milton Ruiz , Antonios Tsokaros , Stuart L. Shapiro

(Abridged) We study the dynamical evolution of a stationary, axisymmetric, and perfectly conducting cold accretion disk containing a large-scale magnetic field around a Kerr black hole, trying to understand the relation between accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Li-Xin Li

Disc-winds originating from the inner parts of accretion discs are considered as the basic component of magnetically collimated outflows. The only available analytical MHD solutions to describe disc-driven jets are those characterized by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Matthias Stute , Jose Gracia , Nektarios Vlahakis , Kanaris Tsinganos , Andrea Mignone , Silvano Massaglia

In paper I, we showed that time-dependent general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) numerical models of accretion disks, although being highly turbulent, have surprisingly simple electromagnetic properties. In particular, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan C. McKinney , Ramesh Narayan

We introduce an extension to the AthenaK code for general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) in dynamical spacetimes using a 3+1 conservative Eulerian formulation. Like the fixed-spacetime GRMHD solver, we use standard finite-volume…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-15 Jacob Fields , Hengrui Zhu , David Radice , James M. Stone , William Cook , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Boris Daszuta

We run three long-timescale general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of radiatively inefficient accretion flows onto non-rotating black holes. Our aim is to achieve steady-state behavior out to large radii and understand the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-11 Christopher J. White , Eliot Quataert , Charles F. Gammie

A toy model for magnetic extraction of energy from black hole (BH) accretion disk is discussed by considering the restriction of the screw instability to the magnetic field configuration. Three mechanisms of extracting energy magnetically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ding-Xiong Wang , Yong-Chun Ye , Ren-Yi Ma

We report the results of 3-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of a jet formation by the interaction between an accretion disk and a large scale magnetic field. The disk is not treated as a boundary condition but is solved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Kigure , K. Shibata

We studied magnetically arrested disks (MAD) around rotating black holes (BH), under the influence of radiative cooling. We introduce a critical value of the mass accretion rate $\dot M_{\rm crit}$ for which the cooling by the synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-18 Akshay Singh , Damien Bégué , Asaf Pe'er

Three-dimensional numerical simulations of a hot accretion flow around a supermassive black hole are performed using the general relativity magneto-hydrodynamic (GRMHD) code Athena++. We focus on the case of SANE, with the initial magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-01 Miljenko Čemeljić , Feng Yuan , Hai Yang

Astrophysical plasmas in relativistic spacetimes, such as black hole accretion flows, are often weakly collisional and require kinetic modeling to capture non-local transport and particle acceleration. However, the extreme scale separation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Tyler Trent , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Özel

We present an adaptive multiresolution method for the numerical simulation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics in two space dimensions. The discretization uses a finite volume scheme based on a Cartesian mesh and an explicit compact Rung-Kutta…