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We use global three dimensional radiation magneto-hydrodynamical simulations to study accretion disks onto a $5\times 10^8M_{\odot}$ black hole with accretion rates varying from $\sim 250L_{Edd}/c^2$ to $1500 L_{Edd}/c^2$. We form the disks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 Yan-Fei Jiang , James Stone , Shane W. Davis

Magnetized accretion flow onto a black hole (BH) may lead to accumulation of poloidal magnetic flux across its horizon, which for high BH spin can power far-reaching relativistic jets. The BH magnetic flux is subject to a saturation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-04 Krzysztof Nalewajko , Mateusz Kapusta , Agnieszka Janiuk

Context. The accretion of magnetized plasma onto black holes is a complex and dynamic process, where the magnetic field plays a crucial role. The amount of magnetic flux accumulated near the event horizon significantly impacts the accretion…

General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) flows along magnetic fields threading a black hole can be divided into inflow and outflow parts, according to the result of the competition between the black hole gravity and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Hung-Yi Pu , Masanori Nakamura , Kouichi Hirotani , Yosuke Mizuno , Kinwah Wu , Keiichi Asada

We review some recent results of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GR-MHD) simulations considering the evolution of geometrically thin disks around a central black hole. Thin disk GR-MHD simulations complement the widely used MAD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-10 Indu K. Dihingia , Christian Fendt

Perturber objects interacting with supermassive black hole accretion disks are often invoked to explain observed quasi-periodic behavior in active galactic nuclei (AGN). We present global, 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-04 Sean M. Ressler , Luciano Combi , Xinyu Li , Bart Ripperda , Huan Yang

We present three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the fueling of supermassive black holes in elliptical galaxies from a turbulent cooling medium on galactic scales, taking M87* as a typical case. We find that the mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Minghao Guo , James M. Stone , Eliot Quataert , Chang-Goo Kim

The observations and simulations have revealed that large-scale magnetic field and outflows can exist in the inner regions of an advection-dominated accretion disc where the resistive diffusion may also be important. In the present paper,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 S. M. Ghoreyshi

We report on a global, three-dimensional GRMHD simulation of an accretion torus embedded in a large scale vertical magnetic field orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole. This simulation investigates how a large scale vertical field evolves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Kris Beckwith , John F. Hawley , Julian H. Krolik

The episodic dynamics of the magnetic eruption of a spinning black hole (BH) accretion disks and its associated intense shapeup of their jets is studied via three-dimensional general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD). The embedded…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-16 Akira Mizuta , Toshikazu Ebisuzaki , Toshiki Tajima , Shigehiro Nagataki

We present global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of accretion disks with a strong toroidal magnetic field using an equation of state that fixes the gas thermal scale height. The disk forms from the inflow of a rotating magnetized gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-20 Minghao Guo , Eliot Quataert , Jonathan Squire , Philip F. Hopkins , James M. Stone

We demonstrate the formation of magnetically arrested minidisks (MAM) around equal-mass, nonspinning binary black holes with magnetohydrodynamic simulations of circumbinary disk accretion in full 3+1 general relativity. The initial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-02 Vikram Manikantan , Vasileios Paschalidis

We perform 3D radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the evolution of the fallback debris after a tidal disruption event. We focus on studying the effects of magnetic fields on the formation and early evolution of the accretion flow.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-28 Maria Renee Meza , Xiaoshan Huang , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang

Radiative cooling can strongly influence the structure and dynamics of black hole accretion disks. Here, we perform general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GR-MHD) simulations of magnetically arrested disks (MADs) around a non-spinning…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Akshay Singh , Damien Begue , Asaf Pe'er

Because the magneto-rotational instability is capable of exponentially amplifying weak preexisting magnetic fields, it might be hoped that the character of the magnetic field in accretion disks is independent of the nature of the seed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kris Beckwith , John F. Hawley , Julian H. Krolik

We present a comprehensive analysis of super-Eddington black hole accretion simulations that solve the GRMHD equations coupled with angle-discretized radiation transport. The simulations span a range of accretion rates, two black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-09 Lizhong Zhang , James M. Stone , Christopher J. White , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang , Patrick D. Mullen

Tilted accretion disks in the magnetically arrested (MAD) state may be present in X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei such as Sgr A* and M87. We have carried out 3D global GRMHD simulations to study the evolution of these accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-26 Sajal Gupta , Jason Dexter

We present a new approach for stably evolving general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations in regions where the magnetization $\sigma=b^2/\rho c^2$ becomes large. GRMHD codes typically struggle to evolve plasma above…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-16 Andrew Chael

The existence of outflow in accretion flows is confirmed by observations and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations. In this paper, we study outflows of accretion flows in the presence of resistivity and toroidal magnetic field. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-11 Kazem Faghei , Azam Mollatayefeh

Accretion of material onto a black hole drags any magnetic fields present inwards, increasing their strength. Theory predicts that sufficiently strong magnetic fields can halt the accretion flow, producing a magnetically arrested disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 Bei You , Xinwu Cao , Zhen Yan , Jean-Marie Hameury , Bozena Czerny , Yue Wu , Tianyu Xia , Marek Sikora , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Pu Du , Piotr T. Zycki