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In this work we study the co-evolution of central black holes (BHs) and host galaxies by utilizing an advanced iteration of the DELPHI semi-analytical model of galaxy formation and evolution. Based on dark matter halo merger trees spanning…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-25 Olmo Piana , Hung-Yi Pu , Kinwah Wu

This study investigates the visual characteristics of a rotating black hole (BH) within the fabric of $4$D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity illuminated with two illumination models, such as a celestial light sphere and a thin accretion disk.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-22 Muhammad Israr Aslam , Manahil Ali , Abdul Malik Sultan , Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Sultan Hussain

The orbital decay of binary systems is a critical process for understanding the evolution of massive binary black holes (MBBHs) and binary star formation. Performing high-resolution three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 Tomoaki Matsumoto , Kenta Hotokezaka , Kohei Inayoshi

Binary black hole (BBH) mergers are the primary sources of gravitational wave (GW) events detected by LIGO/Virgo. Binary black holes embedded in the accretion discs of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are possible candidates for such GW events.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-22 W. Ishibashi , M. Gröbner

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) around super massive black holes (SMBHs) are a potential laboratory to study super-Eddington accretion disks and sometimes result in powerful jets or outflows which may shine in the radio and sub millimeter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Brandon Curd , Razieh Emami , Freek Roelofs , Richard Anantua

We use recent progress in simulating the production of magnetohydrodynamic jets around black holes to derive the cosmic spin history of the most massive black holes, with masses >~10^8 Msol. Assuming the jet efficiency depends on spin a, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Alejo Martinez-Sansigre , Steve Rawlings

With the recent discoveries of massive and highly luminous quasars at high redshifts ($z\sim7$; e.g. Mortlock et al. 2011), the question of how black holes (BHs) grow in the early Universe has been cast in a new light. In order to grow BHs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-19 M. Brightman , M. Bachetti , H. P. Earnshaw , F. Fürst , J. García , B. Grefenstette , M. Heida , E. Kara , K. K. Madsen , M. J. Middleton , D. Stern , F. Tombesi , D. J. Walton

This is the second paper in a series aimed at modeling the black hole (BH) mass function, from the stellar to the (super)massive regime. In the present work we focus on (super)massive BHs and provide an ab-initio computation of their mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 A. Sicilia , A. Lapi , L. Boco , F. Shankar , D. M. Alexander , V. Allevato , C. Villforth , M. Massardi , M. Spera , A. Bressan , L. Danese

Both theoretical models and observational evidence indicate that jets and/or outflows driven by central active supermassive black holes exert a significant feedback effect on the overall properties of their host galaxies. Theoretical models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-06 Yongyun Chen , Qiusheng Gu , Junhui Fan , Xiaotong Guo , Xiaoling Yu , Nan Ding , Dingrong Xiong

During the fourth observing run, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration reported the detection of a coalescing compact binary (GW230529$_{-}$181500) with component masses estimated at $2.5-4.5\, M_\odot$ and $1.2-2.0\, M_\odot$ with 90\%…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-27 Ying Qin , Zhen-Han-Tao Wang , Georges Meynet , Rui-Chong Hu , Chengjie Fu , Xin-Wen Shu , Zi-Yuan Wang , Shuang-Xi Yi , Qing-Wen Tang , Han-Feng Song , En-Wei Liang

By performing two-dimensional axisymmetric general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations with spin parameter $a^*$ varying from -0.9 to 0.9, we investigate the dependence on the black hole spin of the energy flow from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Aoto Utsumi , Ken Ohsuga , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Yuta Asahina

There is a broad consensus that accretion onto supermassive black holes and consequent jet formation power the observed emission from active galactic nuclei (AGNs). However, there has been less agreement about how jets form in accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-25 Shane W. Davis , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

We construct Super-Eddington Slim Disks models around both stellar and super-massive black holes by allowing the formation of a porous layer with a reduced effective opacity. We show that at high accretion rates, the inner part of the disks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Calanit Dotan , Nir J. Shaviv

Magnetic connections to the plunging region can exert stresses on the inner edge of an accretion disk around a black hole. We recompute the relativistic corrections to the thin-disk dynamics equations when these stresses take the form of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric Agol , Julian Krolik

The influence of disc radiation capture upon black hole rotational evolution is negligible for radiatively inefficient discs. For the standard thin disc model it is a slight but potentially important effect leading to the equilibrium spin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Pavel Abolmasov

Three energy mechanisms invoking large-scale magnetic fields are incorporated in a model to interpret jet production in black hole (BH) systems, i.e., the Blandford-Znajek (BZ), the magnetic coupling (MC) and Blandford-Payne (BP) processes.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ding-Xiong Wang , Yong-Chun Ye , Yang Li , Zhao-Jiang Ge

We perform axisymmetric, two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate accretion flows around spinning AGN. To mimic the space-time geometry of spinning black holes, we consider effective Kerr potential, and the mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-25 Ramiz Aktar , Kuo-Chuan Pan , Toru Okuda

We present three-dimensional Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations investigating the dependence of the accretion rate on the disc thickness around an equal-mass, circular black hole binary system. We find that for thick/hot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Enrico Ragusa , Giuseppe Lodato , Daniel J. Price

We consider the evolution of a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) surrounded by a retrograde accretion disk. Assuming the disk is exactly in the binary plane and transfers energy and angular momentum to the binary via direct gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Jeremy D. Schnittman , Julian H. Krolik

This paper, the second of a series on radiation-regulated accretion onto black holes (BHs) from galactic scales, focuses on the effects of radiation pressure and angular momentum of the accreting gas. We simulate accretion onto…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-13 KwangHo Park , Massimo Ricotti