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Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are common in local galactic nuclei, and SMBHs as massive as several billion solar masses already exist at redshift z=6. These earliest SMBHs may grow by the combination of radiation-pressure-limited…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Zoltán Haiman

We estimated the magnetic field strength at the event horizon for a sample of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Our estimates were made using the values of the inclination angles of the accretion disk to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-20 M. Yu. Piotrovich , A. G. Mikhailov , S. D. Buliga , T. M. Natsvlishvili

Magnetic fields can play a major role in the dynamics of outstanding explosions associated to violent events such as GRBs and hypernovae, since they provide a natural mechanism to harness the rotational energy of the central proto-neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-04 Matteo Bugli , Jérôme Guilet , Martin Obergaulinger

The last decade has witnessed significant progress in our understanding of the growth of super-massive black holes (SMBHs). It is now clear that an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN: the observed manifestation of a growing SMBH) is an "event"…

The study of galaxy mergers and supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) is central to our understanding of the galaxy and black hole assembly and (co-)evolution at the epoch of structure formation and throughout cosmic history. Galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-22 S. Komossa , J. G. Baker , F. K. Liu

The formation of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in early-type galaxies (ETGs) is a key challenge for galaxy formation theories. Using the monolithic collapse models of ETGs formed in Milgromian Dynamics (MOND) from Eappen et al. (2022),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Robin Eappen , Pavel Kroupa

The growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) remains a central problem in astrophysics, with current observations providing only limited constraints on the underlying mechanisms. One possible growth channel is stellar accretion via the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-13 Aubrey L. Jones , Benjamin C. Bromley

Winds from black hole accretion disks are essential ingredients in understanding the coevolution between the supermassive black hole and its host galaxy. The great difference of dynamical ranges from small-scale accretion disk simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Can Cui , Feng Yuan

We explore the amplification of magnetic seed fields during the formation of the first stars and galaxies. During gravitational collapse, turbulence is created from accretion shocks, which may act to amplify weak magnetic fields in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Robi Banerjee , Sharanya Sur , Tigran G. Arshakian , Ralf S. Klessen , Rainer Beck , Marco Spaans

The main requirements for fueling an active galactic nucleus and to form massive black holes are reviewed. Low-luminosity AGN can be fueled easily from the local star clusters, near the nucleus, and the various stellar processes are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Combes

Magnetically arrested accretion discs (MADs) around black holes (BH) have the potential to stimulate the production of powerful jets and account for recent ultra-high-resolution observations of BH environments. Their main properties are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Mitchell C. Begelman , Nicolas Scepi , Jason Dexter

The direct collapse (DC) is a promising mechanism that provides massive seed black holes (BHs) with $\sim 10^{5}~M_{\odot}$ in the early universe. To study a long-term accretion growth of a DCBH thus formed, we perform cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-20 Sunmyon Chon , Takashi Hosokawa , Kazuyuki Omukai

We discuss the importance of large scale strong magnetic field in the removal of angular momentum outward, as well as the possible origin of different kinds of magnetic barrier in advective, geometrically thick, sub-Keplerian accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Tushar Mondal , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Magnetic fields permeate the Universe on all scales and play a key role during star formation. We study the evolution of magnetic fields around a massive metal-free (Population III) star at $z \sim 15$ during the growth of its HII region…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-03 Daegene Koh , John H. Wise

Supermassive black holes (BH) at the centres of galaxies can rapidly change their mass and spin by gas accretion and mergers. Using hydrodynamical cosmological simulations, with prescriptions for BH growth and feedback from Active Galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Yohan Dubois , Marta Volonteri , Joseph Silk

Magnetic reconnection is thought to be one of the main energy-dissipation mechanisms fueling energy to the plasma in the vicinity of a black hole. Indeed, plasmoids formed through magnetic reconnection may play a key role in $\gamma$-ray,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-01 Antonios Nathanail , Vasilis Mpisketzis , Oliver Porth , Christian M. Fromm , Luciano Rezzolla

The processes driving gas accretion on to supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are still poorly understood. Angular momentum conservation prevents gas within $\sim10\,$pc of the black hole from reaching radii $\sim10^{-3}\,$pc where viscous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-16 Christian Faber , Walter Dehnen

Nuclear rings at the centers of barred galaxies are known to be strongly magnetized. To explore the effects of magnetic fields on star formation in these rings and nuclear gas flows, we run magnetohydrodynamic simulations in which there is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-13 Sanghyuk Moon , Woong-Tae Kim , Chang-Goo Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

In the $\Lambda$CDM scenario, small galaxies merge to produce larger entities. Since supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are found in galaxies of all sizes, SMBH binaries (SMBHBs) are generally expected to form during the amalgamation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 Xian Chen , D. N. C. Lin , Xiaojia Zhang

Accretion disks in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are predicted to become gravitationally unstable substantially interior to the black hole's sphere of influence, at radii where the disk is simultaneously unstable to the magnetorotational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-30 Tsun Hin Navin Tsung , Mitchell C. Begelman , Philip J. Armitage , Yan-Fei Jiang , Hannalore J. Gerling-Dunsmore
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