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Accreting black holes (BHs) produce intense radiation and powerful relativistic jets, which are affected by the BH's spin magnitude and direction. While thin disks might align with the BH spin axis via the Bardeen-Petterson effect, this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-19 Jonathan C. McKinney , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Roger D. Blandford

The observational appearance of a black hole is critically dependent on the surrounding accreting matter, in particular on the central brightness depression and photon ring structure. We perform a systematic comparative analysis of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-21 Yuxuan Shi , Hongbo Cheng

While supermassive binary black holes inspiral toward merger they may also experience significant accretion of matter from a surrounding disk. We study the dynamics of this system, simultaneously describing the evolving spacetime and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-17 Mark J. Avara , Julian H. Krolik , Manuela Campanelli , Scott C. Noble , Dennis Bowen , Taeho Ryu

We investigate how a Hernquist type dark matter (DM) halo, parametrized by its core radius $r_{s}$ and central density $\rho_{s}$, influences both the gravitational wave (GW) emission from timelike periodic orbits and the electromagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-08 Zhenglong Ban , Jing-Ya Zhao , Tian-You Ren , Yaobin Hua , Rong-Jia Yang parameter

We generalise the relativistic accretion thick disc model to the background of a spinning charged accelerating black hole described by the C-metric to study the effects of this background on the disc model. We show the properties of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-11 Shokoufe Faraji , Audrey Trova

Stellar-mass Primordial Black Holes (PBH) have been recently reconsidered as a Dark Matter (DM) candidate, after the aLIGO discovery of several binary BH mergers with masses of tens of $M_\odot$. Matter accretion on such massive objects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-20 Vivian Poulin , Pasquale D. Serpico , Francesca Calore , Sebastien Clesse , Kazunori Kohri

We investigated the shadow and optical appearance of Bardeen black hole (BH) immersed in perfect-fluid dark matter (PFDM). Using the EHT data, we find that the DM parameter is restricted to a narrow allowed range, confined to values of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-02 Haiyuan Feng , Ziqiang Cai , Hao-Peng Yan , Rong-Jia Yang , Jinjun Zhang

We investigate the luminosity of the accretion disk for a static black hole surrounded by dark matter with anisotropic pressure. We calculate all basic orbital parameters of test particles in the accretion disk, such as angular velocity,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-01 Kuantay Boshkayev , Roberto Giambò , Talgar Konysbayev , Ergali Kurmanov , Orlando Luongo , Daniele Malafarina , Hernando Quevedo

This paper investigates the dynamical behavior of steady spherical accretion onto a static, magnetically charged black hole embedded in a perfect fluid dark matter (PFDM) background. Using the shadow observations of M87* from the Event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-11 Taiyang Zhang , Zhongyuan Qin , Qian Feng , Zheng-Wen Long

Super-massive black holes (SMBHs) hosted in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can be characterized by multi-accreting periods as the attractors interact with the environment during their life-time. These multi-accretion episodes should leave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-15 D. Pugliese , Z. Stuchlik

We present the results of our studies on accretion disks in the proximity of astrophysical black holes. These disks can be of varying degrees of opacity, geometrical shapes, sizes, and volumes. The central compact object is a Schwarzschild…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-27 Leela Elpida Koutsantoniou

In this paper, we investigate the effects of a dark matter (DM) spike on the neighborhood of Sgr A*, the black hole (BH) in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Our main goal is to investigate whether current and future astronomical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-06 Sourabh Nampalliwar , Saurabh K. , Kimet Jusufi , Qiang Wu , Mubasher Jamil , Paolo Salucci

We consider the steady-state density and velocity dispersion profiles of collisionless matter around a Schwarzschild black hole (BH) and its associated rate of accretion onto the BH. We treat matter, which could be stars or dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-25 Stuart L. Shapiro

Understanding how dark matter affects the immediate environment of black holes (BHs) is crucial for interpreting horizon-scale observations. We study rotating BHs surrounded by perfect fluid dark matter (PFDM), exploring their observable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-03 Huang Yu-Xiang , Guo Sen , Liang En-Wei , Lin Kai

Kerr black hole (BH) superradiance can form gravitational atoms and produce characteristic gravitational-wave signals, providing a probe of ultralight bosons and dark matter. In realistic systems, accretion-disk gravity can shift energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-06 Ruiheng Li , Zhong-hao Luo , Zehong Wang , Fa Peng Huang

The radiative and jet efficiencies of thin magnetized accretion disks around black holes (BHs) are affected by BH spin and the presence of a magnetic field that, when strong, could lead to large deviations from Novikov-Thorne (NT) thin disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-31 Mark J. Avara , Jonathan C. McKinney , Chris S. Reynolds

Dark matter around black holes can induce drag forces through dynamical friction and accretion, potentially affecting the orbital evolution and gravitational wave emission of binary systems. While dynamical friction from scalar field dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-29 Shuo Xin , Elias R. Most

We study the motion of test particles in the gravitational field of a Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by a spherical dark matter cloud with non-zero tangential pressure and compute the luminosity of the accretion disk. The presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-14 Kuantay Boshkayev , Talgar Konysbayev , Yergali Kurmanov , Orlando Luongo , Daniele Malafarina

This paper investigates the effects of saturated thermal conduction (TC) and thermal-driven winds (TDWs) on magnetized advection-dominated accretion onto a rotating black hole (BH). We incorporate dissipative processes in the magnetized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-20 Biplob Sarkar , Indu Kalpa Dihingia , Ranjeev Misra

The accretion of material onto a black hole modifies the properties of that hole owing to the capture of both matter and radiation. Adding matter to the hole through an accretion disc generally acts to increase the hole's spin parameter,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-13 Andrew Mummery