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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 describe results from a new technique for the prediction of complete, self-consistent X-ray spectra from three-dimensional General Relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of black hole accretion flows. Density and cooling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-01 Brooks E. Kinch , Jeremy D. Schnittman , Timothy R. Kallman , Julian H. Krolik

We present the first dynamical model of plasma accretion onto traversable wormholes by performing General Relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical (GRMHD) simulations of the flow on both sides of the wormhole. We evolve the ideal MHD equations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-14 Luciano Combi , Huan Yang , Eduardo Gutierrez , Scott C. Noble , Gustavo E. Romero , Manuela Campanelli

The role of radiation in general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) accretion simulations is discussed through axisymmetric simulations of the evolution of an initial torus seeded with a weak magnetic field. The paper compares and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-07 Jean-Pierre De Villiers

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

A new code and methodology are introduced for solving the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) equations in fixed background spacetimes using time-explicit, finite-volume discretization. The code has options for solving the…

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

We present the black hole accretion code (BHAC), a new multidimensional general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics module for the MPI-AMRVAC framework. BHAC has been designed to solve the equations of ideal general-relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-20 Oliver Porth , Hector Olivares , Yosuke Mizuno , Ziri Younsi , Luciano Rezzolla , Monika Moscibrodzka , Heino Falcke , Michael Kramer

We describe a conservative, shock-capturing scheme for evolving the equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. The fluxes are calculated using the Harten, Lax, and van Leer scheme. A variant of constrained transport, proposed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Charles F. Gammie , Jonathan C. McKinney , Gábor Tóth

We present the first three-dimensional, fully general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (3D GRMHD) simulation of a black hole (BH) formed from the collapsed core of a massive star. The ability to self-consistently capture the birth of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-22 Goni Halevi , Swapnil Shankar , Philipp Mösta , Roland Haas , Erik Schnetter

We present 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic(GRMHD) simulations of zero angular momentum accretion around a rapidly rotating black hole, modified by the presence of initially uniform magnetic fields. We consider serveral angles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-17 Sean M. Ressler , Eliot Quataert , Christopher J. White , Omer Blaes

In this chapter, we give an overview of our current understanding of the physics of accreting massive black hole binaries (MBHBs), with a special focus on the latest developments in numerical simulations and General-Relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-24 Eduardo M. Gutiérrez , Luciano Combi , Geoffrey Ryan

Interpreting multimessenger signals from neutron stars and black holes requires reliable general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulations across rapidly evolving high-performance computing platforms, yet key algorithms are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-13 Samuel Cupp , Leonardo R. Werneck , Terrence Pierre Jacques , Samuel Tootle , Zachariah B. Etienne

We present a sub-grid model that emulates the magnetic dynamo operating in magnetized accretion disks. We have implemented this model in the general relativisic radiation magnetohydrodynamic (GRRMHD) code \koral, using results from local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , David Abarca , Yucong Zhu , Jonathan C. McKinney

We present a new magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation code with the aim of providing accurate numerical solutions to astrophysical phenomena where discontinuities, shock waves, and turbulence are inherently important. The code implements…

This paper presents a new computer code to solve the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) equations using distributed parallel adaptive mesh refinement (AMR). The fluid equations are solved using a finite difference Convex ENO…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthew Anderson , Eric Hirschmann , Steven L. Liebling , David Neilsen

Simulating accretion and feedback from the horizon scale of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) out to galactic scales is challenging because of the vast range of scales involved. Elaborating on H. Cho et al., we describe and test a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-23 Hyerin Cho , Ben S. Prather , Kung-Yi Su , Ramesh Narayan , Priyamvada Natarajan

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

We present the new general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) capabilities of the Einstein Toolkit, an open-source community-driven numerical relativity and computational relativistic astrophysics code. The GRMHD extension of the…

The equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) have become the standard mathematical framework for modeling high-energy plasmas in curved spacetimes. However, the fragility of the primitive variable reconstruction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-31 Jonathan Gorard , James Juno , Ammar Hakim

We present two general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics (GRRMHD) simulations of magnetically arrested disks (MADs) around non-spinning ($a_*=0$) and spinning ($a_*=0.9$) supermassive black holes (BHs). In each simulation, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Brandon Curd , Ramesh Narayan