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Binary systems surrounded by a circumbinary accretion flow can be subject to strong magnetic fields, potentially altering the character of the accretion flow itself, the evolution of the orbital dynamics, and outflow properties from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Hai-Yang Wang , Elias R. Most , Philip F. Hopkins

We present global 3D GRMHD simulations of black hole (BH) accretion disks designed to investigate how MRI-driven dynamo action regulates jet formation and evolution. Unlike standard SANE/MAD setups that impose a coherent large-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 P. S. Santhiya , Pallavi Bhat , Prayush Kumar , Tushar Mondal , Indu K. Dihingia

The vertical structure of black hole accretion disks in which radiation dominates the total pressure is investigated using a three-dimensional radiation-MHD calculation. The domain is a small patch of disk centered 100 Schwarzschild radii…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. J. Turner

Magnetic fields in an accretion disk around the central black hole can modify the position of the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) radius and produces the difference for the classical Novikov-Thorne radius. We estimated the ISCO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-27 M. Yu. Piotrovich , Yu. N. Gnedin , N. A. Silant'ev , T. M. Natsvlishvili , S. D. Buliga

We suggest a possible mechanism of efficient transport of the large-scale external magnetic flux inward through a turbulent accretion disk. The outward drift by turbulent diffusion which limits the effectiveness of this process is reduced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dmitri A. Uzdensky , H. C. Spruit

The Rossby Wave Instability (RWI) has become an important concept in understanding the hydrodynamics (HDs) of accretion discs (ADs), especially in systems around black holes (BHs) where magnetic effects are either weak or absent. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-21 Bibhuti Bhusan Dutta , Liza Devi , Biplob Sarkar , Asish Jyoti Boruah

The centre of our Milky Way harbours the closest candidate for a supermassive black hole. The source is thought to be powered by radiatively inefficient accretion of gas from its environment. This form of accretion is a standard mode of…

Binary systems with comparable masses and a surrounding accretion disk can accrete gas through spiral accretion streams penetrating the central cavity formed by tidal interactions. Using three-dimensional Newtonian magnetohydrodynamics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-20 Elias R. Most , Hai-Yang Wang

Accretion discs and black holes (BHs) have angular momenta that are generally misaligned with respect to each other, which can lead to warps in the discs and bends in any jets produced. We consider a disc that is misaligned at large radii…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-15 Peter Polko , Jonathan C. McKinney

We propose a model of magnetic connection (MC) of a black hole with its surrounding accretion disc based on large-scale magnetic field. The MC gives rise to transport of energy and angular momentum between the black hole and the disc, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhao-Ming Gan , Ding-Xiong Wang , Wei-Hua Lei

We show that accretion disks with magnetic fields in them ought to make jets provided that their electrical conductivity prevents slippage and there is an ambient pressure in their surroundings. We study equilibria of highly wound magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D Lynden-Bell

If accretion disc contains weak frozen-in entangled magnetic fields, their dynamical effect may be important inside the last stable orbit because of the decompression near the sonic point. Here, I consider the radial and vertical structure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 P. Abolmasov

Steady state accretion discs larger than ~ 0.01-0.1 pc are known to be gravitationally unstable for the accretion rates needed to explain super-massive black hole (SMBH) activity. We propose that SMBH are fed by a succession of mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei Nayakshin , Andrew King

We present three-dimensional MHD simulations of rotating radiatively inefficient accretion flows onto black holes. In the simulations, we continuously inject magnetized matter into the computational domain near the outer boundary, and we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Igor V. Igumenshchev , Ramesh Narayan , Marek A. Abramowicz

We present a detailed study of localised magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) instabilities occuring in two--dimensional magnetized accretion disks. We model axisymmetric MHD disk tori, and solve the equations governing a two--dimensional magnetized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-08 J. W. S. Blokland , R. Keppens , J. P. Goedbloed

We investigate the global stability of a differentially rotating fluid shell threaded by vertical and azimuthal magnetic fields to linear, axisymmetric perturbations. This system, which models a thick accretion disk in the vicinity of its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Charles Curry , Ralph E. Pudritz

We develop and discuss a model formalism to study the properties of mass outflows that are emerged out from a relativistic, magnetized, viscous, advective accretion flow around a rotating black hole. In doing so, we consider the toroidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-08 Camelia Jana , Santabrata Das

A review is made of recent magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) theory and simulations of origin of jets from accretion disks. Many compact astrophysical objects emit powerful, highly-collimated, oppositely directed jets. Included are the extra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. V. E. Lovelace , G. V. Ustyugova , A. V. Koldoba

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) plays a key role in the formation of stars and black holes, by enabling outward angular momentum transport in accretion disks. The use of combined axial and azimuthal magnetic fields allows the…

Magnetic fields play a central role in accretion physics around black holes, yet their physical origin within accretion flows remains an open problem. In this work, we investigate the generation and subsequent evolution of magnetic fields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-03 Mukesh Kumar Vyas , Asaf Pe'er