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We study the accretion flow of a hot gas captured by the black hole gravity in the presence of a thin cold accretion disk. Such geometrical arrangement is expected in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and in galactic X-ray binary systems because…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei Nayakshin

We present axisymmetric numerical simulations of radiatively inefficient accretion flows onto black holes combining general relativity, magnetohydrodynamics, self-consistent electron thermodynamics, and frequency-dependent radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Benjamin R. Ryan , Sean M. Ressler , Joshua C. Dolence , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Charles F. Gammie , Eliot Quataert

The current popular model for launching, accelerating and collimating astrophysical jets is based on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). AGN jets are most probably powered by energy extracted from either an accretion disk or a rapidly rotating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Max Camenzind

We consider an accretion flow model originally proposed by Bisnovatyi-Kogan & Ruzmaikin (1974), which has been confirmed in recent 3D MHD simulations. In the model, the accreting gas drags in a strong poloidal magnetic field to the center…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ramesh Narayan , Igor V. Igumenshchev , Marek A. Abramowicz

Simulating black hole (BH) accretion and feedback from the horizon to galactic scales is extremely challenging, as it involves a vast range of scales. Recently, our multizone method has successfully achieved global dynamical steady-states…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-25 Hyerin Cho , Ben S. Prather , Ramesh Narayan , Kung-Yi Su , Priyamvada Natarajan

Understanding the physics and geometry of accretion and ejection around super massive black holes (SMBHs) is important to understand the evolution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and therefore of the large scale structures of the Universe.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-11 Margherita Giustini , Daniel Proga

We use three dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations, in a pseudo-Newtonian potential, to study geometrically thin accretion disc flows crossing the marginally stable circular orbit around black holes. We concentrate on vertically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Philip J. Armitage , Christopher S. Reynolds , James Chiang

The close neighbourhood of a supermassive black hole contains not only the accreting gas and dust but also stellar-sized objects, such as late-type and early-type stars and compact remnants that belong to the nuclear star cluster. When…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 Petra Suková , Michal Zajaček , Vojtěch Witzany , Vladimír Karas

We calculate the severe radiative energy losses which occur at the base of black hole jets using a relativistic fluid jet model, including in-situ acceleration of non-thermal leptons by magnetic reconnection. Our results demonstrate that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-15 William J. Potter

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

In this study, we investigate the effect of resistivity on the dynamics of global magnetohydrodynamic accretion flows (Res-MHD) around a spinning supermassive black hole. We perform a comparative study of 2D and 3D resistive models around…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Ramiz Aktar , Kuo-Chuan Pan , Toru Okuda

The radio source Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is believed to be a hot, inhomogeneous, magnetized plasma flowing near the event horizon of the 3 million solar mass black hole at the galactic center. At a distance of 8000 parsecs the black hole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Scott C. Noble , Po Kin Leung , Charles F. Gammie , Laura G. Book

The existence of outflow and magnetic field in the inner region of hot accretion flows have been confirmed by observations and numerical magnetohydrodynamic simulations (MHD). We present self-similar solutions for radiation inefficiently…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Abbassi , A. Mosallanezhad

Previous numerical simulations have shown that cold clumps can form within hot accretion flows, offering insights into the detailed processes of the state transition in black hole X-ray binaries. However, the evolution of the cold clumps…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-23 Na-Duo Liu , Yu-Heng Sheng , De-Fu Bu , Xiao-Hong Yang , Mao-Chun Wu , Ren-Yi Ma

It has long been thought that black hole accretion flows are driven by magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, and there are now many general relativistic global simulations illustrating the dynamics of this process. However, many challenges…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-11 Chris Nagele , Julian H. Krolik , Rongrong Liu , Brooks E. Kinch , Jeremy D. Schnittman

We report on a global, three-dimensional GRMHD simulation of an accretion torus embedded in a large scale vertical magnetic field orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole. This simulation investigates how a large scale vertical field evolves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Kris Beckwith , John F. Hawley , Julian H. Krolik

Combined influence of rotation of a black hole and ambient magnetic fields creates conditions for powerful astrophysical processes of accretion and outflow of matter which are observed in many systems across the range of masses; from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-26 Ondrej Kopacek , Vladimir Karas

We perform global three-dimensional (3D) radiation-hydrodynamic (RHD) simulations of out- flow from supercritical accretion flow around a 10 Msun black hole. We only solve the outflow part, starting from the axisymmetric 2D simulation data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Hiroshi Kobayashi , Ken Ohsuga , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Tomohisa Kawashima , Yuta Asahina , Shun Takeuchi , Shin Mineshige

We perform GR-MHD simulations of outflow launching from thin accretion disks. As in the non-relativistic case, resistivity is essential for the mass loading of the disk wind. We implemented resistivity in the ideal GR-MHD code HARM3D,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Christos Vourellis , Christian Fendt , Qian Qian , Scott Noble

We carried out three-dimensional global resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the cooling instability in optically thin hot black hole accretion flows by assuming bremsstrahlung cooling. General relativistic effects are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Mami Machida , Kenji Nakamura , Ryoji Matsumoto