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A stellar-mass black hole, embedded within the accretion disk of an active galactic nuclei (AGN), has the potential to accrete gas at a rate that can reach approximately $\sim 10^9$ times the Eddington limit. This study explores the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-13 Zifan Tang , Yang Luo , Jian-Min Wang

We study the accretion flows from the circumbinary disks onto the supermassive binary black holes in a subparsec scale of the galactic center, using a smoothed particles hydrodynamics (SPH) code. Simulation models are presented in four…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kimitake Hayasaki , Shin Mineshige , Hiroshi Sudou

Accretion is the dominant contribution to the cosmic massive black hole density in the Universe today. Yet, modelling it in cosmological simulations is challenging due to the dynamic range involved, as well as the theoretical uncertainties…

Two-dimensional accretion flows near black holes have been investigated by time-dependent hydrodynamical calculations. We assume that the flow is axisymmetric and that radiative losses of internal energy are negligible, so that the disc is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Igor V. Igumenshchev , Xingming Chen , Marek A. Abramowicz

We review the current state of understanding how accretion onto a black hole proceeds and what are they key elements needed to form relativistic jets. Since the theoretical progress is severely halted by the lack of deep understanding of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Bozena Czerny , Bei You

If a Kerr black hole is connected to a disk rotating around it by a magnetic field, the rotational energy of the Kerr black hole provides an energy source for the radiation of the disk in addition to disk accretion. The black hole exerts a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Li-Xin Li

A recent approach to simulating localized feedback from active galactic nuclei by Power et al. (2011) uses an accretion disc particle to represent both the black hole and its accretion disc. We have extrapolated and adapted this approach to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 James Wurster , Rob J. Thacker

The accretion of matter onto celestial bodies like black holes and neutron stars is a natural phenomenon that releases up to $40\%$ of the matter's rest-mass energy, which is considered a source of radiation. In active galactic nuclei and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-25 G. Abbas , Hamza Rehman , M. Usama , Tao Zhu

Galactic nuclei should contain a cluster of stars and compact objects in the vicinity of the central supermassive black hole due to stellar evolution, minor mergers and gravitational dynamical friction. By analogy with protoplanetary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 B. McKernan , K. E. S. Ford , W. Lyra , H. B. Perets , L. M. Winter , T. Yaqoob

We study the orbital evolution and accretion history of massive black hole (MBH) pairs in rotationally supported circumnuclear discs up to the point where MBHs form binary systems. Our simulations have high resolution in mass and space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Dotti , M. Ruszkowski , L. Paredi , M. Colpi , M. Volonteri , F. Haardt

We address the role of large scale magnetic stress in the angular momentum transport, as well as the formation of different kinds of magnetic barrier in geometrically thick, optically thin, vertically averaged 1.5-dimensional advective…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-28 Tushar Mondal , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

The structure of the inner edge of the accretion disk around a black hole can be altered, if the matter inside the marginally stable orbit is magnetically connected to the disk. In this case, a non-zero torque is exerted on its inner edge,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Xinwu Cao , Y. D. Xu

We shortly summarize the standard current knowledge on the structure of the accretion flow onto black holes in galactic binary systems and in active galactic nuclei. We stress the similarities and differences between the two types of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-06 Bozena Czerny , Marzena Sniegowska , Agnieszka Janiuk , Bei You

We perform numerical simulations of clouds in the Galactic Centre (GC) engulfing the nuclear super-massive black hole and show that this mechanism leads to the formation of gaseous accretion discs with properties that are similar to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-05-03 Christian Alig , Andreas Burkert , Peter H. Johansson , Marc Schartmann

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

Active Galactic Nuclei are powered by accretion of matter onto a supermassive black hole (SMBH) of mass Mbh ~ 10^{5}-10^{9} Msun. The accretion process is indeed the most efficient mechanism for energy release we currently know of, with up…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-24 W. Alston , M. Giustini , P. O. Petrucci

The galactic black hole binary systems give an observational template showing how the accretion flow changes as a function of increasing mass accretion rate, or L/L_Edd. These data can be synthetised with theoretical models of the accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Chris Done , Marek Gierlinski

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

Multiple models have been suggested over the years to explain the structure and support of accretion disks around supermassive black holes, from the standard thin thermal-pressure-dominated $\alpha$-disk model to more recent models that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-28 Yashvardhan Tomar , Philip F. Hopkins , Kyle Kremer

We studied the final phases of galactic mergers, focusing on interactions between supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and the interstellar medium in a central sub-kpc region, using an N-body/hydrodynamics code. This numerical experiment aims…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-26 Takeru Kawaguchi , Naomichi Yutani , Keiichi Wada