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Solving the problem of fast eruptive events in magnetically dominated astrophysical plasmas requires the use of particularly well adapted numerical tools. Indeed, the central mechanism based on magnetic reconnection is determined by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-07 Hubert Baty

Recent observations by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) of supermassive black holes M87* and Sgr A* offer valuable insights into their spacetime properties and astrophysical conditions. Utilizing a library of model images (~2 million for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-25 A. I. Yfantis , S. Zhao , R. Gold , M. Mościbrodzka , A. E. Broderick

X-ray reflection spectroscopy is currently one of the leading techniques for studying the inner part of accretion disks around black holes, measuring black hole spins, and even testing fundamental physics in strong gravitational fields.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-14 Swarnim Shashank , Shafqat Riaz , Askar B. Abdikamalov , Cosimo Bambi

We present a general procedure to solve numerically the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) equations within the framework of the 3+1 formalism. The work reported here extends our previous investigation in general relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 L. Anton , O. Zanotti , J. A. Miralles , J. M. Marti , J. M. Ibanez , J. A. Font , J. A. Pons

Steady axisymmetric outflows originating at the hot coronal magnetosphere of a Schwarzschild black hole and surrounding accretion disk are studied in the framework of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD). The assumption of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Z. Meliani , C. Sauty , N. Vlahakis , K. Tsinganos , E. Trussoni

To study phenomena of plasmas around rotating black holes, we have derived a set of 3+1 formalism of generalized general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) equations. Especially, we investigated general relativistic phenomena with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Shinji Koide

Observations are providing increasingly detailed quantitative information about the accretion flows that power such high energy systems as X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei. Analytic models of such systems must rely on assumptions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. F. Hawley , J. -P. De Villiers

We have performed 2.5-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the gravitational collapse of a magnetized rotating massive star as a model of gamma ray bursts (GRBs). The current calculation focuses on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yosuke Mizuno , Shoichi Yamada , Shinji Koide , Kazunari Shibata

General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of accreting black holes in the radiatively inefficient regime show that systems with sufficient magnetic poloidal flux become magnetically arrested disc (MAD) systems, with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Philip Mocz , Xinyi Guo

We investigate the global structure of general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic (GRMHD) accretion flows around Kerr black holes containing shock waves, where the disk is threaded by radial and toroidal magnetic fields. We self-consistently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-12 Samik Mitra , Santabrata Das

Black hole accretion is one of nature's most efficient energy extraction processes. When gas falls in, a significant fraction of its gravitational binding energy is either converted into radiation or flows outwards in the form of black…

General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) flows along magnetic fields threading a black hole can be divided into inflow and outflow parts, according to the result of the competition between the black hole gravity and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Hung-Yi Pu , Masanori Nakamura , Kouichi Hirotani , Yosuke Mizuno , Kinwah Wu , Keiichi Asada

Fueling and feedback couple supermassive black holes (SMBHs) to their host galaxies across many orders of magnitude in spatial and temporal scales, making this problem notoriously challenging to simulate. We use a multi-zone computational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-22 Hyerin Cho , Ben S. Prather , Ramesh Narayan , Priyamvada Natarajan , Kung-Yi Su , Angelo Ricarte , Koushik Chatterjee

We present results from the first fully general relativistic, magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of an equal-mass black hole binary (BHBH) in a magnetized, circumbinary accretion disk. We simulate both the pre and post-decoupling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-04 Brian D. Farris , Roman Gold , Vasileios Paschalidis , Zachariah B. Etienne , Stuart L. Shapiro

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

We present a ``cyclic zoom'' method to capture the dynamics of accretion flows onto black holes across a vast range of spatial and temporal scales in general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations. In this method, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Minghao Guo , James M. Stone , Eliot Quataert , Volker Springel

Particle acceleration by magnetic reconnection is now recognized as an important process in magnetically dominated regions of galactic and extragalactic black hole sources. This process helps to solve current puzzles specially related to…

The remarkable results by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration concerning the emission from M87* and, more recently, its polarization properties, require an increasingly accurate modeling of the plasma flows around the accreting black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-23 Niccolò Tomei , Luca Del Zanna , Matteo Bugli , Niccolò Bucciantini

In this proceeding, we provide a novel approach to study the General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) accretion flows around rotating black holes (BHs). In doing so, we choose a sub-Keplerian distribution of angular momentum of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-11 Samik Mitra

The general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamical (GRMHD) formulation for black hole-powered jets naturally gives rise to a stagnation surface, wherefrom inflows and outflows along magnetic field lines that thread the black hole event horizon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 Hung-Yi Pu , Kinwah Wu , Ziri Younsi , Keiichi Asada , Yosuke Mizuno , Masanori Nakamura