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We provided a comprehensive study of the properties of the black hole in the low-mass X-ray binary system 4U 1543-47, specifically focusing on the 2021 outburst (MJD 59380-59470). Using observations from the \textit{Insight}-HXMT mission,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-25 Jun Yang , Nan Jia , Erlin Qiao , Yujia Song , Lijun Gou

Recently, Allen et al. measured a tight correlation between the Bondi accretion rates and jet powers of the nuclei of nearby X-ray luminous elliptical galaxies. We employ two models of jet powering to understand the above correlation and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rodrigo S. Nemmen , Richard G. Bower , Arif Babul , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann

Recent observations of Galactic Black Hole Candidates (BHCs) suggest that those that are superluminal jet sources have more rapid black hole spin rates than otherwise normal BHCs. This provides observational support for models of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shinji Koide , David L. Meier , Kazunari Shibata , Takahiro Kudoh

Combined with the observation of M87*, shadow has gradually became a promising test of the black hole nature. Recently, EHT collaboration gave new constraints on the shadow size at 68\% confidence levels. In this work, we consider the new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-06 Shao-Wen Wei , Yuan-Chuan Zou

Both theoretical models and observational evidence indicate that jets and/or outflows driven by central active supermassive black holes exert a significant feedback effect on the overall properties of their host galaxies. Theoretical models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-06 Yongyun Chen , Qiusheng Gu , Junhui Fan , Xiaotong Guo , Xiaoling Yu , Nan Ding , Dingrong Xiong

Accretion of gas onto a central supermassive black hole is generally accepted to be the source of the emitted energy in active galactic nuclei.The broad emission lines we observe in their optical spectra are probably formed in the wind of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 W. Kollatschny

Future X-ray instrumentation is expected to allow us to significantly improve the constraints derivedfrom the Fe K lines in AGN, such as the black-hole angular momentum (spin) and the inclination angle of the putative accretion disk. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 K. D. Murphy , T. Yaqoob , M. Dovčiak , V. Karas

I review recent progress in the theory of relativistic jet production, with special emphasis on unifying black hole sources of stellar and supermassive size. Observations of both classes of objects, as well as theoretical considerations,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David L. Meier

Inspired by the observations of supermassive black hole M87* in \emph{Event Horizon Telescope }(EHT) experiment, a remarkable surge in black hole physics is to use the black hole shadow's observables to distinguish general relativity (GR)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 Yuan Meng , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Zi-Yu Tang

In this article, we present the thermodynamic and shadow properties of rotating black holes with global monopole charge. The angular diameter of Sgr A$^{*}$ black hole is 48.7 $\pm$ 7 $\mu as$, which is 8 $kps$ far away having a mass of $M…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-04 Balendra Pratap Singh , Md Sabir Ali

We examine the fundamental plane of 91 Blazars which include FSRQs and BL Lacs with known X-ray luminosity ($L_{R}$), radio luminosity ($L_X$), and black hole mass measurements ($M$) to reflect the relationship between jet and accretion for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-15 Xu Zhang , Dingrong Xiong , Quangui Gao , Guiqin Yang , Fangwu Lu , Weiwei Na , Longhua Qin

The recent observation of the shadow of the supermassive compact object M87$^*$ by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has opened up a new window to probe the strong gravity regime. In this paper, we study shadows cast by two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Rajibul Shaikh , Kunal Pal , Kuntal Pal , Tapobrata Sarkar

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has recently published the first horizon-scale images of the supermassive black holes M87* and Sgr A* and provided some first information on the physical conditions in their vicinity. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-20 Kotaro Moriyama , Alejandro Cruz-Osorio , Yosuke Mizuno , Christian M. Fromm , Antonios Nathanail , Luciano Rezzolla

We perform three general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of black hole accretion designed to test how sensitive results are to grid resolution in the jet region. The cases differ only in numerics, modelling the same physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Christopher J. White , Fiona Chrystal

We present the first simultaneous spectral energy distribution (SED) of M87 core at a scale of 0.4 arcsec ($\sim 32\, \rm{pc}$) across the electromagnetic spectrum. Two separate, quiescent, and active states are sampled that are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-16 M. A. Prieto , J. A. Fernández-Ontiveros , S. Markoff , D. Espada , O. González-Martín

The spins of stellar-mass black holes (BHs) and the power outputs of their jets are measurable quantities. Unfortunately, the currently employed methods do not agree and the results are controversial. Two major issues concern the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 D. M. Christodoulou , I. Contopoulos , D. Kazanas , J. F. Steiner , D. B. Papadopoulos , S. G. T. Laycock

According to the asymptotically safe gravity, black holes may have characteristics different from those described according to general relativity if the running of the gravitational constant coupling happens at low energies. Particularly,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Luigi Foschini , Alberto Vecchiato , Alfio Bonanno

Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) of the hot plasma spots or clumps orbiting an accreting black hole contain information on the black hole mass and spin. The promising observational signatures for the measurement of black hole mass and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-02 Vyacheslav I. Dokuchaev

In this contribution, we summarize our results concerning the observational constraints on the electric charge associated with the Galactic centre black hole - Sgr A*. According to the no-hair theorem, every astrophysical black hole,…

In the standard paradigm, astrophysical black holes can be described solely by their mass and angular momentum - commonly referred to as `spin' - resulting from the process of their birth and subsequent growth via accretion. Whilst the mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-19 Matthew Middleton