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We perform three-dimensional radiation-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (3D Rad-RMHD) simulations of accretion flows around spinning active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Our study focuses on the magnetically arrested disk (MAD) state, adopting a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-13 Ramiz Aktar , Kuo-Chuan Pan , Toru Okuda

In this study, we investigate the effect of resistivity on the dynamics of global magnetohydrodynamic accretion flows (Res-MHD) around a spinning supermassive black hole. We perform a comparative study of 2D and 3D resistive models around…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Ramiz Aktar , Kuo-Chuan Pan , Toru Okuda

Magnetically-arrested disks (MADs) appear when accretion flows are supplied with a sufficient amount of magnetic flux. In this work, we use results of magnetohydrodynamic simulations to set the configuration of the magnetic field and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-31 Fu-Guo Xie , Andrzej A. Zdziarski

Using high-resolution general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations, we investigate accretion flows around spinning black holes and identify three distinct accretion states. Our results suggest the origin of the complex…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Rohan Raha , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Koushik Chatterjee

The supermassive black holes in most galaxies in the universe are powered by hot accretion flows. Both theoretical analysis and numerical simulations have indicated that, depending on the degree of magnetization, black hole hot accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-26 Feng Yuan , Haiyang Wang , Hai Yang

General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulations are an indispensable tool in studying accretion onto compact objects. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) frequently uses libraries of ideal GRMHD simulations to interpret…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-27 Vedant Dhruv , Ben Prather , George Wong , Charles F. Gammie

The study of Magnetically Arrested Disks (MAD) attract strong interest in recent years, as these disk configurations were found to generate strong jets as observed in many accreting systems. Here, we present the results of 14 general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 G. -Q. Zhang , D. Bégué , A. Pe'er , B. -B. Zhang

The remarkable results by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration concerning the emission from M87* and, more recently, its polarization properties, require an increasingly accurate modeling of the plasma flows around the accreting black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-23 Niccolò Tomei , Luca Del Zanna , Matteo Bugli , Niccolò Bucciantini

We perform three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of a near-maximally spinning black hole (spin parameter, a = 0.998) with varying initial magnetic field geometries, systematically exploring the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Rohan Raha , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Koushik Chatterjee

We present a novel approach to study the global structure of steady, axisymmetric, advective, geometrically thin, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) accretion flow around black holes in full general relativity (GR). Considering ideal MHD conditions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 Samik Mitra , Debaprasad Maity , Indu Kalpa Dihingia , Santabrata Das

We perform axisymmetric, two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate accretion flows around spinning AGN. To mimic the space-time geometry of spinning black holes, we consider effective Kerr potential, and the mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-25 Ramiz Aktar , Kuo-Chuan Pan , Toru Okuda

We use the public code ebhlight to carry out 3D radiative general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulations of accretion onto the supermassive black hole in M87. The simulations self-consistently evolve a frequency-dependent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 Philippe Z. Yao , Jason Dexter , Alexander Y. Chen , Benjamin R. Ryan , George N. Wong

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

General-relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical (GRMHD) simulations of accreting black holes suggest that the accretion flows form toroidal structures embedded in a large scale component of magnetic field, which becomes organized on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-08 Petra Suková , Michal Zajaček , Vladimír Karas

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

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

Wind-fed models offer a unique way to form predictive models of the accretion flow surrounding Sagittarius A*. We present 3D, wind-fed MHD and GRMHD simulations spanning the entire dynamic range of accretion from parsec scales to the event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Sean M. Ressler , Christopher J. White , Eliot Quataert

We evolve two high-resolution general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of advection-dominated accretion flows around non-spinning black holes (BHs), each over a duration $\sim 3\times 10^5\,GM_{\rm BH}/c^3$. One model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-21 Koushik Chatterjee , Ramesh Narayan

The general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations are widely used to study accretion disk and jet dynamics around a black hole. Despite strong observational evidences for intrinsically nonlinear behavior, the interpretations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Srishty Aggarwal , Rohan Raha , Mayank Pathak , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of accreting black holes in the radiatively inefficient regime show that systems with sufficient magnetic poloidal flux become magnetically arrested disc (MAD) systems, with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Philip Mocz , Xinyi Guo
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