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Direct collapse black holes (DCBHs) are the leading candidates for the origin of the first supermassive black holes. However, the role of magnetic fields during their formation is still unclear as none of the previous studies has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Muhammad A. Latif , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Sadegh Khochfar

Observations of quasars at $\rm z> 6$ report the existence of a billion solar mass black holes. Comprehending their formation in such a short time scale is a matter of ongoing research. One of the most promising scenarios to assemble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. A. Latif , D. R. G. Schleicher , W. Schmidt

Magnetic fields are expected to be efficiently amplified during the formation of the first massive black holes via the small-scale dynamo and in the presence of strong accretion shocks occurring during gravitational collapse. Here, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-26 Muhammad A. Latif , Dominik R. G. Schleicher

We study the effect of magnetic braking due to a primordial magnetic field in the context of the formation of massive ($\gtrsim 10^{4} M_\odot$) direct collapse black holes (DCBHs) at high redshifts. Under the assumption of axial symmetry,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-23 Kanhaiya L. Pandey , Shiv K. Sethi , Bharat Ratra

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

Accretion supermassive black holes in the center of active galaxies usually produce ``jets''-collimated bipolar outflows of relativistic particles. Magnetic fields near the black hole event horizon may play a crucial role in the formation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-05 Yongyun Chen , Qiusheng Gu , Junhui Fan , Xiaotong Guo , Xiaoling Yu , Nan Ding , Dingrong Xiong

Accretion in the nuclei of active galaxies may occur chaotically. This can produce accretion discs which are counter-rotating or strongly misaligned with respect to the spin of the central supermassive black hole (SMBH), or the axis of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Chris Nixon , Andrew King , Daniel Price

Intermediate-mass black holes (with $\geq\!10^5\,M_\odot$) are promising candidates for the origin of supermassive black holes (with $\sim\!10^9\,M_\odot$) in the early universe (redshift $z\sim6$). Chon & Omukai (2020) firstly pointed out…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Shingo Hirano , Masahiro N. Machida , Shantanu Basu

Black holes cannot support their own internal magnetic field like, for example, compact stars can. Despite this fact observations indicate that event horizons of supermassive black holes (SMBH) are threaded by field lines along which plasma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 V. Karas , O. Kopacek , D. Kunneriath , M. Zajacek , A. Araudo , A. Eckart , J. Kovar

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 show that dark stars, which are dark-matter-powered stars in the early universe, can grow by accretion to masses in the range $\mathscr{O}\left ({10}^4\right )-\mathscr{O}\left ({10}^7\right)\,{M_\odot}$ before the general-relativistic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Katherine Freese , George M. Fuller , Sohan Ghodla , Cosmin Ilie , Kyle S. Kehrer , Tanja Rindler-Daller , Evangelos I. Sfakianakis

Magnetic field can be amplified and twisted near a supermassive black hole residing in a galactic nucleus. At the same time magnetic null points develop near the horizon. We examine a large-scale oblique magnetic field near a rotating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-19 V. Karas , O. Kopacek , D. Kunneriath

We investigate the generation of magnetic fields above black hole accretion discs due to the non-zero curl of the disc radiation field. By self consistently computing the components of the radiation flux and their curl, we show that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-16 Mukesh Kumar Vyas , Asaf Pe'er

The recently confirmed correlation between the mass of SMBH and bulges of galaxies (and their central velocity dispersion), suggest a common formation scenario for galaxies and their central black holes. Common fueling can be invoked…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Combes

Recent rotation measure observations of a dozen or so galaxy clusters have revealed a surprisingly large amount of magnetic fields, whose estimated energy and flux are, on average, $\sim 10^{58}$ ergs and $\sim 10^{41}$ G cm$^2$,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stirling A. Colgate , Hui Li

A magnetic field dynamo in the inner regions of the accretion disk surrounding the supermassive black holes in AGNs may be the mechanism for the generation of magnetic fields in galaxies and in extragalactic space. We argue that the two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-19 Vladimir I. Pariev , Stirling A. Colgate

Magnetic null points can develop near the ergosphere boundary of a rotating black hole by the combined effects of strong gravitational field and the frame-dragging mechanism. The electric component does not vanish in the magnetic null and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-01 Vladimir Karas , Ondrej Kopacek , Devaky Kunneriath , Tayebeh Tahamtan

Although it is assumed that magnetic fields in accretion disks are dragged from the interstellar medium, the idea is likely not applicable to primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the early universe. Here we show that magnetic fields can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-21 Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh

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…

Luminous quasars powered by accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) have been found in the early Universe at $z \gtrsim 7.5$, which set a strong constraint on both the seed black hole mass and the rapid growth of the SMBHs. In this work,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Jiawen Li , Xinwu Cao
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