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Black Holes generate a particular kind of environments dominated by an accretion flow which concentrates a magnetic field. The interplay of gravity and magnetism creates this paradoxical situation where relativistic ejection is allowed and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Pelletier

Radio continuum observations allow to reveal the magnetic field structure in the disk and halo of nearby spiral galaxies, their magnetic field strength and vertical scale heights. The spiral galaxies studied so far show a similar magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-01-08 Marita Krause

Magnetic fields play an important role in the dynamics of present-day molecular clouds. Recent work has shown that magnetic fields are equally important for primordial clouds, which form the first stars in the Universe. While the primordial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 Piyush Sharda , Christoph Federrath , Mark R. Krumholz , Dominik R. G. Schleicher

The electromagnetic field near a rotating black hole is being explored in educational style here. By employing analytic solutions for electrovacuum fields, we plot the surfaces of constant flux and we show how the field is dragged around…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Budinova , M. Dovciak , V. Karas , A. Lanza

Super-massive black holes (SMBHs) with $M_{\bullet} \sim 10^9 $ M$_{\odot}$ at $z>6$ likely originate from massive seed black holes (BHs). We investigate the consequences of seeding SMBHs with direct collapse BHs (DCBHs)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 Daniel S. Eastwood , Sadegh Khochfar

We investigate the impact of massive primordial black holes (PBHs; $m_{\rm BH}\sim 10^6~M_{\odot}$) on the star formation and first galaxy assembly process using high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations from $z = 1100$ to $z \sim 9$. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-27 Saiyang Zhang , Boyuan Liu , Volker Bromm , Junehyoung Jeon , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Florian Kuhnel

Magnetic fields play a vital role in numerous astrophysical processes such as star formation and the interstellar medium. In particular, their role in the formation and evolution of galaxies is not well understood. This paper presents…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-10 Huai-Hsuan Chiu , Ke-Jung Chen

We review the current status of studies on accretion and protoplanetary disks of young stars with large-scale magnetic fields. Observational data on magnetic fields of the disks are compiled and analysed. Modern analytical and numerical MHD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-26 Sergey A. Khaibrakhmanov

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) host some of the most energetic phenomena in the Universe. AGN are thought to be powered by accretion of matter onto a rotating disk that surrounds a supermassive black hole. Jet streams can be boosted in energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-13 Ivan Marti-Vidal , Sebastien Muller , Wouter Vlemmings , Cathy Horellou , Susanne Aalto

The deposition of mechanical feedback from a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in an active galactic nucleus (AGN) into the surrounding galaxy occurs via broad-line winds which must carry mass and radial momentum as well as energy. The effect…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Ena Choi , Luca Ciotti , Gregory S. Novak , Daniel Proga

We numerically investigate the generation of a magnetic field in a protostellar disc via an $\alpha \Omega$-dynamo and the resulting magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) driven outflows. We find that for small values of the dimensionless dynamo…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-05 Sergei Dyda , Richard V. E. Lovelace , Galina V. Ustyugova , Alexander V. Koldoba , Ira Wasserman

Jetted astrophysical phenomena with black hole (BH) engines, including binary mergers, jetted tidal disruption events, and X-ray binaries, require a large-scale vertical magnetic field for efficient jet formation. However, a dynamo…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-02 Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , François Rincon , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Matthew Liska

Theory and simulations suggest that magnetic fields from radio jets and lobes powered by their central super massive black holes can be an important source of magnetic fields in the galaxy clusters. This is paper II in a series of studies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Hao Xu , Hui Li , David C. Collins , Shengtai Li , Michael L. Norman

Stellar mass black holes (SMBHs), forming by the core collapse of very massive, rapidly rotating stars, are expected to exhibit a high density accretion disk around them developed from the spinning mantle of the collapsing star. A wide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-07 Indrani Banerjee , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Magnetic fields are considered as a vital ingredient of contemporary star formation, and may have been important during the formation of the first stars in the presence of an efficient amplification mechanism. Initial seed fields are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-20 Muhammad A. Latif , Dominik R. G. Schleicher

The exact time-dependent solution is obtained for a magnetic field growth during a spherically symmetric accretion into a black hole (BH) with a Schwarzschild metric. Magnetic field is increasing with time, changing from the initially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-03 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

Here we propose a mechanism for efficiently growing intermediate mass black holes (IMBH) in disks around supermassive black holes. Stellar mass objects can efficiently agglomerate when facilitated by the gas disk. Stars, compact objects and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 B. McKernan , K. E. S. Ford , W. Lyra , H. B. Perets

While the formation of the first black holes at high redshift is reasonably well understood though debated, massive black hole formation at later cosmic epochs has not been adequately explored. We present a gas accretion driven mechanism…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-22 Priyamvada Natarajan

We show that the motion of the neutral masses in an accretion disk orbiting a black hole creates a general-relativistic magnetic-like (gravitomagnetic) field that vertically accelerates neutral particles near the accretion disk upward and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-20 J. Poirier , G. J. Mathews

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can answer a plethora of cosmic conundra, among which the origin of the cosmic magnetic fields. In particular, supermassive PBHs with masses $M_\mathrm{PBH}>10^{10} M_\odot$ and furnished with a plasma-disk…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-14 Theodoros Papanikolaou , Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos