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The recent imaging of the M87 black hole at millimeter wavelengths by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has triggered a renewed interest in numerical models for the accretion of magnetized plasma in the regime of general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 N. Tomei , L. Del Zanna , M. Bugli , N. Bucciantini

General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations represent a fundamental tool to probe various underlying mechanisms at play during binary neutron star (BNS) and neutron star (NS) - black hole (BH) mergers. Contemporary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-27 Jay V. Kalinani , Riccardo Ciolfi , Wolfgang Kastaun , Bruno Giacomazzo , Federico Cipolletta , Lorenzo Ennoggi

Global, general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of nonradiative, magnetized disks are widely used to model accreting black holes. We have performed a convergence study of GRMHD models computed with HARM3D. The models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Hotaka Shiokawa , Joshua C. Dolence , Charles F. Gammie , Scott C. Noble

Recent developments in compact object astrophysics, especially the discovery of merging neutron stars by LIGO, the imaging of the black hole in M87 by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and high precision astrometry of the Galactic Center at…

The equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) have become the standard mathematical framework for modeling high-energy plasmas in curved spacetimes. However, the fragility of the primitive variable reconstruction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-31 Jonathan Gorard , James Juno , Ammar Hakim

We perform three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of a near-maximally spinning black hole (spin parameter, a = 0.998) with varying initial magnetic field geometries, systematically exploring the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Rohan Raha , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Koushik Chatterjee

We present a new approach for stably evolving general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations in regions where the magnetization $\sigma=b^2/\rho c^2$ becomes large. GRMHD codes typically struggle to evolve plasma above…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-16 Andrew Chael

General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulations are an indispensable tool in studying accretion onto compact objects. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) frequently uses libraries of ideal GRMHD simulations to interpret…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-27 Vedant Dhruv , Ben Prather , George Wong , Charles F. Gammie

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

Black hole (BH) accretion flows and jets are dynamic hot relativistic magnetized plasma flows whose radiative opacity can significantly affect flow structure and behavior. We describe a numerical scheme, tests, and an astrophysically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jonathan C. McKinney , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

The profound comprehension of the evolution and phenomenology of an Active Galactic Nucleus requires an accurate exploration of the dynamics of the magnetized gaseous disk surrounding the massive black hole in the centre. Many numerical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-13 Giacomo Fedrigo , Alessandro Lupi

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

Relativistic magnetic reconnection is thought to power various multi-wavelength emission signatures from neutron stars and black holes. Relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics (RRMHD) offers the simplest model of reconnection. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-07 B. Ripperda , M. P. Grehan , A. Moran , S. Selvi , L. Sironi , A. Philippov , A. Bransgrove , O. Porth

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 the first dynamical model of plasma accretion onto traversable wormholes by performing General Relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical (GRMHD) simulations of the flow on both sides of the wormhole. We evolve the ideal MHD equations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-14 Luciano Combi , Huan Yang , Eduardo Gutierrez , Scott C. Noble , Gustavo E. Romero , Manuela Campanelli

General-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations have revolutionized our understanding of black hole accretion. Here, we present a graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerated GRMHD code \hammer{} with multi-faceted optimizations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-06 M. T. P. Liska , K. Chatterjee , D. Issa , D. Yoon , N. Kaaz , A. Tchekhovskoy , D. van Eijnatten , G. Musoke , C. Hesp , V. Rohoza , S. Markoff , A. Ingram , M. van der Klis

Resistive relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (RRMHD) simulations are applied to investigate the system evolution of relativistic magnetic reconnection. A time-split Harten--Lan--van Leer method is employed. Under a localized resistivity, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-07 Seiji Zenitani , Michael Hesse , Alex Klimas

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

Relativistic macroscopic plasma dynamics can be described by general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. In many high-energy astrophysical settings, such as the interior dynamics of magnetized stars, the ideal GRMHD approximation, in which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-23 Sara Azizi , Swapnil Shankar , Philipp Mösta , Roland Haas , Erik Schnetter

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
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