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We study a truncated accretion disk using a well-resolved, semi-global magnetohydrodynamic simulation that is evolved for many dynamical times (6096 inner disk orbits). The spectral properties of hard state black hole binary systems and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 J. Drew Hogg , Christopher S. Reynolds

If an accretion disk around a black hole is illuminated by hard X-rays from non-thermal coronae, fluorescent iron lines will be emitted from the inner region of the accretion disk. The emission line profiles will show a variety of strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Yan Wang , Xiang-Dong Li

It has been observed that many relativistic jets display a kind of cork-screw-like precession. Numerical simulations has suggested that such kind of precession may originate from the precession of the disk. In this work, we introduce an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-08 Ye Shen , Bin Chen

A typical galaxy is thought to contain tens of millions of stellar-mass black holes, the collapsed remnants of once massive stars, and a single nuclear supermassive black hole. Both classes of black holes accrete gas from their…

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

There is a supermassive black hole, a gaseous accretion disk and compact star cluster in the center of active galactic nuclei, as known today. So the activity of AGN can be represented as the result of interaction of these three subsystems.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-11 Bekdaulet Shukirgaliyev

When an accretion flow extends to the event horizon, their intersection defines the contour of the inner shadow. However, the morphological evolution of this critical feature remains largely unexplored within a torn accretion disk system, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Shiyang Hu , Dan Li , Chen Deng , Kejian He

Accretion onto black holes often proceeds via an accretion disc or a temporary disc-like pattern. Variability features, observed in the light curves of such objects, and theoretical models of accretion flows suggest that accretion discs are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 V. Karas

We study the effects of a thin gaseous accretion disk on the inspiral of a stellar--mass black hole into a supermassive black hole. We construct a phenomenological angular momentum transport equation that reproduces known disk effects. Disk…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Nicolás Yunes , Bence Kocsis , Abraham Loeb , Zoltán Haiman

This paper examines the general relativistic model of a geometrically thick configuration of an accretion disc around an electrically charged black hole in an accelerated motion, as described by the C-metric family. We aim to study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-14 Shokoufe Faraji , Audrey Trova , Vladimir Karas

Multiple models have been suggested over the years to explain the structure and support of accretion disks around supermassive black holes, from the standard thin thermal-pressure-dominated $\alpha$-disk model to more recent models that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-28 Yashvardhan Tomar , Philip F. Hopkins , Kyle Kremer

Black hole spins affect the efficiency of the "classical" accretion processes, hence the radiative output from quasars. Spins also determine how much energy is extractable from the hole itself. Recently it became clear that massive black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-06 Marta Volonteri

Colliding black holes are systems of profound interest in both gravitational wave astronomy and in gravitation theory, and a variety of methods have been developed for modeling their dynamics in detail. The features of these dynamics are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-24 Robert Owen , Alex S. Fox , John A. Freiberg , Terrence Pierre Jacques

Multi-transonic accretion for a spinning black hole has been compared among different disc geometries within post Newtonian pseudo potential framework. The variation of stationary shock characteristics with black hole spin has been studied…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-04 Sonali Saha , Sharmistha Sen , Sankhasubhra Nag , Suparna Roychowdhury , Tapas K Das

Magnetic fields lines are trapped in black hole event horizons by accreting plasma. If the trapped field lines are lightly loaded with plasma, then their motion is controlled by their footpoints on the horizon and thus by the spin of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-23 George N. Wong , Yufeng Du , Ben S. Prather , Charles F. Gammie

Spiral density waves are known to exist in many astrophysical disks, potentially affecting disk structure and evolution. We conduct a numerical study of the effects produced by a density wave, evolving into a shock, on the characteristics…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Lev Arzamasskiy , Roman R. Rafikov

The dynamics and structure of accretion disks, which accumulate the vertical magnetic field in the centers, are investigated using two- and three-dimensional MHD simulations. The central field can be built up to the equipartition level and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Igor V. Igumenshchev

We propose a model of a twisted accretion disc around a Kerr black hole interacting with a secondary black hole of a smaller mass on an inclined eccentric orbit. We use parameters of the system, which may be appropriate for the so-called…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-03 P. B. Ivanov , V. V. Zhuravlev

We discuss the observational consequences of black hole spin in X-ray binaries within the framework of the standard thin accretion disk model. When compared to theoretical flux distribution from the surface of a thin disk surrounding a Kerr…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. N. Zhang , Wei Cui , Wan Chen

We present the first numerical result of fully general relativistic axisymmetric simulations for the collapse of a rotating high-entropy stellar core to a black hole and an accretion disk. The simulations are performed taking into account…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata