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We construct a semi-analytic model for MHD flows in Kerr geometry, that incorporates energy loading via neutrino annihilation on magnetic field lines threading the horizon. We compute the double-flow structure for a wide range of energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Noemie Globus , Amir Levinson

We investigate the steady, axisymmetric, force-free magnetosphere of Kerr-Sen black hole (BH) within the framework of the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton-axion (EMDA) theory. By perturbatively solving the nonlinear Grad-Shafranov (GS) equation, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Haiyuan Feng , Ziqiang Cai , Rong-Jia Yang , Jinjun Zhang

We investigate the extraction of the rotational energy of a black hole under different accreting environment. When the accretion rate is moderate, the accretion disk consists of an outer thin disk and an inner advection-dominated accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-08 Hung-Yi Pu , Kouichi Hirotani , Yosuke Mizuno , Hsiang-Kuang Chang

From a spacetime perspective, the dynamics of magnetic field lines of force-free electromagnetic fields can be rewritten into a quite similar form for the dynamics of strings, i.e., dynamics of "field sheets". Using this formalism, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-30 Shunichiro Kinoshita , Takahisa Igata

We obtain analogs of the Blandford-Znajek split monopole solution for force-free magnetospheres around a slowly rotating Kerr-AdS black hole. For small black holes, we find an analytic solution to first order in the ratio of horizon radius…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-11 Xun Wang , Adam Ritz

In this paper, we investigate the magnetohydrodynamical structure of a jet powered by a spinning black hole, where electromagnetic fields and fluid motion are governed by the Grad-Shafranov equation and the Bernoulli equation, respectively.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 Lei Huang , Zhen Pan , Cong Yu

Recent Very Long Baseline Interferometry observations of the relativistic jet in the M87 radio galaxy at 43 GHz show gradual relativistic acceleration of the plasma and suggest a linear dependence of Lorentz factor on jet radius at scales…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-16 Denis Nikolaevich Sob'yanin

A resistive magnetohydrodynamics simulation with a dynamo term is performed for modeling the collapsar in full general relativity. As an initial condition, a spinning black hole and infalling stellar matter are modeled based on a stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-05 Masaru Shibata , Sho Fujibayashi , Shinya Wanajo , Kunihito Ioka , Alan Tsz-Lok Lam , Yuichiro Sekiguchi

We calculate the advection/diffusion of the large-scale magnetic field threading an ADAF, and find that the magnetic field can be dragged inward by the accretion flow efficiently, if the magnetic Prandtl number P~1. This is due to the large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Xinwu Cao

Most quasars are known to be radio quiet and according to the ``spin paradigm'', which connects their radio-loudness with the value of the black hole spin, they must harbor very slowly rotating black holes. On the other hand, quasars are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Rafal Moderski , Marek Sikora , Jean-Pierre Lasota

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most energetic events in the universe, driven by relativistic jets launched from black holes (BHs) formed during the collapse of massive stars or after the merger of two neutron stars (NSs). The jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-18 Zhao-Feng Wu , Michail Damoulakis , Paz Beniamini , Dimitrios Giannios

According to Blandford & Znajek (1977), energy can be extracted electromagnetically from a rotating black hole, should the latter be endowed with a magnetic field supported by electric currents in a surrounding disk. We show that exact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-04 Antonios Nathanail , Ioannis Contopoulos , Spyros Basilakos

We examine energy conversion from accreting pair plasma to outgoing Poynting flux by black hole rotation. Our approach is based on a two-fluid model consisting of collisionless pair plasma. The electric potential is not constant along…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-04 Yasufumi Kojima

Force-Free Electrodynamics (FFE) describes magnetically dominated relativistic plasma via non-linear equations for the electromagnetic field alone. Such plasma is thought to play a key role in the physics of pulsars and active black holes.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-05 Samuel E. Gralla , Ted Jacobson

Aims. A simplified model of jet power from active galactic nuclei is proposed in which the relationship between jet power and disk luminosity is discussed by combining disk accretion with two mechanisms of extracting energy magnetically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yang Li , Ding-Xiong Wang , Zhao-Ming Gan

Context: Accreting black holes (BHs) may be surrounded by a highly magnetized plasma threaded by a poloidal magnetic field. Non-thermal flares and high energy components could originate from a hot, collisionless and nearly force-free…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-27 I. El Mellah , B. Cerutti , B. Crinquand , K. Parfrey

Magnetic field threading a black hole ergosphere is believed to play the key role in both driving the powerful relativistic jets observed in active galactic nuclei and extracting the rotational energy from a black hole via Blandford-Znajek…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-23 E. Nokhrina

Many efforts were made in order to better understand the energy extraction via magnetic reconnection from a rotating black hole, following the work of Comisso and Asenjo in 2021. We also tried to make some progress in our previous works, in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Ho-Yun YuChih , Ye Shen

Analytical studies have raised the concern that a mysterious expulsion of magnetic field lines by a rapidly-spinning black hole (dubbed the black hole Meissner effect) would shut down the Blandford-Znajek process and quench the jets of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Fan Zhang

We investigate whether models based on the assumption that jets in quasars are powered by rotating black holes can explain the observed radio dichotomy of quasars. We show that in terms of the ``spin paradigm'' models, radio-loud quasars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Moderski , M. Sikora , J. -P. Lasota