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The exact two-dimensional non-stationary solution for the evolution of the magnetic field during accretion with nearly spherical symmetry, using Newton's solution and considering both Keplerian and sub-Keplerian flows around the black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-19 Malihe Mousapour Gharghabi , Jamshid Ghanbari , Mahboobe Moeen Moghaddas

In this paper we report on the formation of magnetically-levitating accretion disks around supermassive black holes. The structure of these disks is calculated by numerically modelling tidal disruption of magnetized interstellar gas clouds.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Evghenii Gaburov , Anders Johansen , Yuri Levin

Understanding the dynamics of low angular momentum accretion flow around black holes (BHs) is essential for probing extreme plasma behavior in strong gravity, where shock formation can naturally produce variability signatures. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-27 Jirong Mao , Indu K. Dihingia , Yosuke Mizuno , Shigehiro Nagataki

Supermassive binary black holes in galactic centers are potential multimessenger sources in gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation. To find such objects, isolating unique electromagnetic signatures of their accretion flow is key.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Sean M. Ressler , Luciano Combi , Bart Ripperda , Elias R. Most

Accreting black hole sources show variable outflows at different mass scales. For instance, in the case of galactic nuclei, our own galactic center Sgr A* exhibits flares and outbursts in the X-ray and infrared bands. Recent studies suggest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-17 Bestin James , Agnieszka Janiuk , Vladimir Karas

Outflows and convective motions in accretion flows have been intensively discussed recently in the context of advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF) based on two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamical simulations. We,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mami Machida , Ryoji Matsumoto , and Shin Mineshige

The quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in black hole (BH) systems of different scales are interpreted based on the magnetic reconnection of the large-scale magnetic fields generated by the toroidal electric currents flowing in the inner…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Chang-Yin Huang , Ding-Xiong Wang , Jiu-Zhou Wang , Zhi-Yun Wang

The dynamics of a black hole traveling through a plasma--a general relativistic extension of the classic Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton (BHL) accretion problem--can be related to a variety of astrophysical contexts, including the aftermath of binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-17 Yoonsoo Kim , Elias R. Most

Black hole (BH) accretion flows and jets are dynamic hot relativistic magnetized plasma flows whose radiative opacity can significantly affect flow structure and behavior. We describe a numerical scheme, tests, and an astrophysically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jonathan C. McKinney , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

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

We perform general relativistic simulations of magnetized, accreting disks onto spinning binary black holes (BHBHs) with different mass ratios (MRs). The magnitude of the individual BH spins are all $\chi= 0.26$ and lie either along the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-14 Milton Ruiz , Antonios Tsokaros , Stuart L. Shapiro

In this proceeding, we provide a novel approach to study the General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) accretion flows around rotating black holes (BHs). In doing so, we choose a sub-Keplerian distribution of angular momentum of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-11 Samik Mitra

We describe global, 3D, time-dependent, non-radiative, general-relativistic, magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accreting black holes (BHs). The simulations are designed to transport a large amount of magnetic flux to the center, more than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Ramesh Narayan , Jonathan C. McKinney

Large-scale magnetic fields play a vital role in determining the angular momentum transport and generating jets/outflows in the accreting systems, yet their origin remains poorly understood. We focus on radiatively inefficient accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-01 Prasun Dhang , Xue-Ning Bai , Christopher J. White

Relativistic jets from supermassive black holes are expected to be magnetically launched and guided, with magnetic energy systematically converted to bulk kinetic energy throughout an extended acceleration-collimation zone (ACZ). A key…

Radio galaxies are a subclass of active galactic nuclei that drive relativistic jets from their center and are observed in radio to very-high-energy gamma rays. The emission mechanisms and regions are still unknown. High-energy gamma rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-15 Riku Kuze , Shigeo S. Kimura , Kenji Toma

Supermassive black holes (BH) accrete gas from their surroundings and coalesce with companions during galaxy mergers, and both processes change the BH mass and spin. By means of high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations of galaxies, either…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Yohan Dubois , Marta Volonteri , Joseph Silk , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz

We study the effect of large-scale magnetic fields on the non-axisymmetric inertial-acoustic modes (also called p-modes) trapped in the innermost regions of accretion discs around black holes (BHs). These global modes could provide an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Cong Yu , Dong Lai

Magnetic fields in an accretion disk around the central black hole can modify the position of the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) radius and produces the difference for the classical Novikov-Thorne radius. We estimated the ISCO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-27 M. Yu. Piotrovich , Yu. N. Gnedin , N. A. Silant'ev , T. M. Natsvlishvili , S. D. Buliga

Strong gravity and magnetic fields are key ingredients that power processes of accretion and ejection near compact objects. While the particular mechanisms that operate here are still discussed, it seems that the presence of an ordered…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-02 Ondřej Kopáček , Vladimír Karas