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Cooling flows in galaxy clusters and isolated elliptical galaxies are a source of mass for fueling accretion onto a central supermassive black hole. We calculate the dynamics of accreting matter in the combined gravitational potential of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eliot Quataert , Ramesh Narayan

The dynamics of a black hole traveling through a plasma--a general relativistic extension of the classic Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton (BHL) accretion problem--can be related to a variety of astrophysical contexts, including the aftermath of binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-17 Yoonsoo Kim , Elias R. Most

In this third paper of a series, we study the growth and luminosity of black holes (BHs) in motion with respect to their surrounding medium. We run a large set of two-dimensional (2D) axis-symmetric simulations to explore a large parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 KwangHo Park , Massimo Ricotti

Aims: We investigate the cosmological growth of dark halos and follow the consequences of coeval growth for the accretion history of associated supermassive black holes. Methods: The Press-Schechter approximation is used to obtain an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Miller , W. J. Percival , S. M. Croom , A. Babic

Traditionlly, gravitational wave emission from a coalescing binary system is computed using point mass approximations without considering any accretion disk. However, it is believed that in many of the galactic nuclei, there are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sandip K. Chakrabarti

Understanding the physical structures of the accreated matter very close to the black hole in quasars and active galactic nucleus (AGNs) is an important milestone to constrain the activities occurring in their centers. In this paper, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-31 Orhan Donmez , Fatih Dogan , Tugba Sahin

We present a comprehensive analysis of super-Eddington black hole accretion simulations that solve the GRMHD equations coupled with angle-discretized radiation transport. The simulations span a range of accretion rates, two black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-09 Lizhong Zhang , James M. Stone , Christopher J. White , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang , Patrick D. Mullen

We investigate accretion onto an isolated black hole from uniform winds. If the winds are directed towards the black hole, then the accretion process can be well described by the classical Bondi-Hoyle Lyttleton or BHL accretion. If the wind…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-09 Priyesh Kumar Tripathi , Indranil Chattopadhyay , Raj Kishor Joshi

In this paper, the numerical investigation of a Bondi-Hoyle accretion around a non-rotating black hole in a novel four dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity is investigated by solving the general relativistic hydrodynamical equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-24 Orhan Donmez

Modeling the radiation generated by accreting matter is an important step towards realistic simulations of black hole accretion disks, especially at high accretion rates. To this end, we have recently added radiation transport to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 P. Chris Fragile , Anna Gillespie , Timothy Monahan , Marco Rodriguez , Peter Anninos

An ultrarelativistic relativistic study of axisymmetric Bondi--Hoyle accretion onto a moving Kerr black hole is presented. The equations of general relativistic hydrodynamics are solved using high resolution shock capturing methods. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Andrew J. Penner

We use global three dimensional radiation magneto-hydrodynamical simulations to study accretion disks onto a $5\times 10^8M_{\odot}$ black hole with accretion rates varying from $\sim 250L_{Edd}/c^2$ to $1500 L_{Edd}/c^2$. We form the disks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 Yan-Fei Jiang , James Stone , Shane W. Davis

We study numerically the axisymmetric relativistic Bondi-Hoyle accretion of a supersonic ideal gas onto a fixed Schwarzschild background space-time described with horizon penetrating coordinates. We verify that a nearly stationary shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-11 F. D. Lora-Clavijo , F. S. Guzman

In this paper, a Bondi-Hoyle accretion onto the rotating black hole in Einstein-Gauss Bonnet gravity is studied. By injecting the gas from the upstream region of the computational domain, we have found the occurrence of the stable shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-09 Orhan Donmez

We study accretion rates during the gravitational wave-driven merger of a binary supermassive black hole embedded in an accretion disc, formed by gas driven to the centre of the galaxy. We use 3D simulations performed with PHANTOM, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-03 Alice Cerioli , Giuseppe Lodato , Daniel J. Price

This paper presents a study of quasi-steady spherical accretion in the early Universe, before the formation of the first stars and galaxies. The main motivation is to derive the basic formulas that will be used in a companion paper to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 Massimo Ricotti

An accreting massive black hole (MBH) in a galactic nucleus is surrounded by a dense stellar cluster. We analyze and simulate numerically the evolution of a thin accretion disk due to its internal viscous torques, due to the frame-dragging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Michal Bregman , Tal Alexander

We study the evolution of disk accretion during the merger of supermassive black hole binaries in galactic nuclei. In hierarchical galaxy formation models, the most common binaries are likely to arise from minor galactic mergers, and have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Philip J. Armitage , Priyamvada Natarajan

I review accretion and outflow in active galactic nuclei. Accretion appears to occur in a series of very small--scale, chaotic events, whose gas flows have no correlation with the large--scale structure of the galaxy or with each other. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Andrew King

We investigated flow in Schwarzschild metric, around a non-rotating black hole and obtained self-consistent accretion - ejection solution in full general relativity. We covered the whole of parameter space in the advective regime to obtain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-04 Indranil Chattopadhyay , Rajiv Kumar