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We explore the evolution in power of black holes of all masses, and their associated jets, within the scheme of an accretion rate-dependent state transition. Below a critical value of the accretion rate all systems are assumed to undergo a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Heino Falcke , Elmar Koerding , Sera Markoff

There is strong evidence that supermassive black holes reside in all galaxies that contain a stellar spheroid and their mass is tightly correlated with properties such as stellar bulge mass and velocity dispersion. There are also strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-20 Stuart I. Muldrew , Frazer R. Pearce , Chris Power

This paper presents a continuation of our efforts to numerically study accretion disks that are misaligned (tilted) with respect to the rotation axis of a Kerr black hole. Here we present results of a global numerical simulation which fully…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Chris Fragile , Omer M. Blaes , Peter Anninos , Jay D. Salmonson

(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

To what extent can the one-dimensional slim disk model reproduce the multi-dimensional results of global radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of super-Eddington accretion? With this question in mind, we perform systematic simulation study of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 Takaaki Kitaki , Shin Mineshige , Ken Ohsuga , Tomohisa Kawashima

Supermassive black holes (BH) accrete gas from their surroundings and coalesce with companions during galaxy mergers, and both processes change the BH mass and spin. By means of high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations of galaxies, either…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Yohan Dubois , Marta Volonteri , Joseph Silk , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz

Observational evidence and many numerical simulations show the existence of wind (i.e., uncollimated outflow) in accretion systems of the elliptical galaxy center. One of the primary aims of this study is to investigate the solutions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-23 Razieh Ranjbar , Shahram Abbassi

Accretion onto supermassive black holes powers the most luminous persistent sources in the Universe, the so-called active galactic nuclei, whose emission is characterized by two distinct spectral components: thermal optical/ultraviolet…

In this review, I summarize the main X-ray/hard X-ray properties of the accretion flows around black holes and neutron stars based on recent broad-band spectral and timing observations performed by the BeppoSAX and Rossi X-ray Timing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Didier Barret

Supermassive black holes at the centre of galactic nuclei mostly grow in mass through gas accretion over cosmic time. This process also modifies the angular momentum (or spin) of black holes, both in magnitude and in orientation. Despite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-25 Davide Fiacconi , Debora Sijacki , J. E. Pringle

This work presents a detailed analysis of the overall flow structure and unique features of the inner region of the tilted disk simulations described in Fragile et al. (2007). The primary new feature identified in the main disk body is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Chris Fragile , Omer M. Blaes

The formation of massive black holes and their coevolution with host galaxies are pivotal areas of modern astrophysics. Spherical accretion onto a central point mass serves as a foundational framework in cosmological simulations,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-04 Razieh Ranjbar , Héctor R. Olivares-Sánchez , Shahram Abbassi

In this work, we present, for the first time, a numerical study of the Bondi-Hoyle accretion with density gradients in the fully relativistic regime. In this context, we consider accretion onto a Kerr Black Hole (BH) of a supersonic ideal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-03 F. D. Lora-Clavijo , A. Cruz-Osorio , Enrique Moreno Méndez

The quasi-steady structure of super-critical accretion flows around a black hole is studied based on the two-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamical (2D-RHD) simulations. The super-critical flow is composed of two parts: the disk region and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Ohsuga , M. Mori , T. Nakamoto , S. Mineshige

In this paper, we present the time evolution of a rotationally axisymmetric gas ring around a non rotating black hole using two dimensional grid-based hydrodynamic simulation. We show the way in which angular momentum transport is included…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-18 Kinsuk Giri , Hsiang-Kuang Chang

We summarize results from a survey of radiation-dominated black hole accretion flows across a wide range of mass accretion rates, as well as two values of black hole spin and initial magnetic field geometry. These models apply an algorithm…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Lizhong Zhang , James M. Stone , Patrick D. Mullen , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang , Christopher J. White

We study the force balance and resulting acceleration of gas in general relativity basing on simulations of accretion on a stellar-mass, non-rotating black hole. We compare properties of acceleration in an optically thin, radiatively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-20 Anton Moller , Aleksander Sadowski

The properties of accretion flows are affected by the angular momentum of the accreting gas. M.-G. Park found that the mass accretion rate, specifically, decreases significantly as the gas angular momentum increases. However, R. Narayan &…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-13 Dongho Han , Myeong-Gu Park

It is commonly believed that the optical/UV and X-ray emissions in luminous AGN are produced in an accretion disk and an embedded hot corona respectively. The inverse Compton scattering of disk photons by hot electrons in the corona can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-05 B. F. Liu , R. E. Taam , E. Qiao , W. Yuan

We present a set of four three-dimensional, general relativistic, radiation MHD simulations of black hole accretion at super-critical mass accretion rates, $\dot{M} > \dot{M}_{\rm Edd}$. We use these simulations to study how disk properties…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan