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It is well established that the properties of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies are correlated through scaling relations. While hydrodynamical cosmological simulations have begun to account for the co-evolution of BHs and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-23 Sebastian Bustamante , Volker Springel

Black hole (BH) accretion flows and jets are dynamic hot relativistic magnetized plasma flows whose radiative opacity can significantly affect flow structure and behavior. We describe a numerical scheme, tests, and an astrophysically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jonathan C. McKinney , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

We demonstrate that a dark silhouette of the black hole illuminated by a thin accretion disk and seen by a distant observer is, in fact, a silhouette of the event horizon hemisphere. The boundary of this silhouette is a contour of the event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-28 Vyacheslav I. Dokuchaev , Natalia O. Nazarova , Vadim P. Smirnov

Astrophysical black holes are embedded in surrounding dark and baryonic matter that can measurably perturb the spacetime. We construct a self-consistent spacetime describing a slowly rotating black hole embedded in an external matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Sayak Datta , Chiranjeeb Singha

Massive black holes (BHs) inhabiting galactic nuclei can be described by two parameters only, i.e. mass and spin, that change through cosmic time in response to accretion and merger events. While most numerical simulations accurately track…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-14 Elia Cenci , Luca Sala , Alessandro Lupi , Pedro R. Capelo , Massimo Dotti

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

We study the orbital decay of a pair of massive black holes (BHs) with masses 5 * 10^5 and 10^7 M_sun, using hydrodynamical simulations of circumnuclear disks (CNDs) with the alternating presence of sub-grid physics such as radiative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 Rafael Souza Lima , Lucio Mayer , Pedro R. Capelo , Jillian M. Bellovary

Jet models of Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) data should also conform to the observed jet profiles just downstream. This study evaluates conformance of models of black hole jets to images of the innermost jet of M87. This is a basic test…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-10 Brian Punsly

We study the time-like geodesic congruences, in the space-time geometry of a Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by quintessence. The nature of effective potential along with the structure of the possible orbits for test particles in view…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Rashmi Uniyal , N. Chandrachani Devi , Hemwati Nandan , K. D. Purohit

This paper is devoted to study the geodesic structure of regular Hayward black hole. The timelike and null geodesic have been studied explicitly for radial and non-radial motion. For timelike and null geodesic in radial motion there exists…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 G. Abbas , U. Sabiullah

We perform a series of high-resolution 2D hydrodynamical simulations of equal-mass binary black holes (BBHs) embedded in active galactic nucleus (AGN) accretion disks to study whether these binaries can be driven to merger by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-05 Ya-Ping Li , Adam M. Dempsey , Shengtai Li , Hui Li , Jiaru Li

We describe a set of simulations of super-critical accretion onto a non-rotating supermassive BH. The accretion flow is radiation pressure dominated and takes the form of a geometrically thick disk with twin low-density funnels around the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

The capability of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to image the nearest supermassive black hole candidates at horizon-scale resolutions offers a novel means to study gravity in its strongest regimes and to test different models for these…

New long-term Very Long Baseline Array observations of the well-known jet in the M87 radio galaxy at 43 GHz show that the jet experiences a sideways shift with an approximately 8-10 yr quasi-periodicity. Such jet wobbling can be indicative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 Denis Nikolaevich Sob'yanin

Rotating regular black hole, as a promising extension beyond general relativity, offer a phenomenological model that resolves spacetime singularities. In this study, we investigate the observational features of thin accretion disk around a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-30 Zhen Li

In recent years, unprecedented progress has been achieved regarding black holes' observation through the electromagnetic channel. The images of the supermassive black holes M87$^{*}$ and Sgr A$^{*}$ released by the Event Horizon Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-11 Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing , Wei-Liang Qian , Bin Wang

We investigate the characteristics of circular geodesics around loop quantum Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole (LQRNBH) and the radiation properties and observational appearance of a thin accretion disk around it. By calculating the shadow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-22 Qian Li , Jia-Hui Huang

Supermassive black hole binaries are likely to accrete interstellar gas through a circumbinary disk. Shortly before merger, the inner portions of this circumbinary disk are subject to general relativistic effects. To study this regime, we…

In this present work, we study the observational appearance of Kerr-Melvin black hole (KMBH) illuminated by an accretion disk. The accretion disk is assumed to be located on the equatorial plane and be thin both geometrically and optically.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Yehui Hou , Zhenyu Zhang , Haopeng Yan , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

We examine the dynamics of particles around a rotating regular black hole. In particular we focus on the effects of the characteristic length parameter of the spinning black hole on the motion of the particles by solving the equation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-23 Brandon Bautista-Olvera , Juan Carlos Degollado , Gabriel German