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The inner part of a thin accretion disk around a Kerr black hole can serve as an important tool to study the physics of the strong gravity regime. A tilt in such a disk with respect to the black hole spin axis is particularly useful for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-04 Srimanta Banerjee , Chandrachur Chakraborty , Sudip Bhattacharyya

This paper presents a continuation of our efforts to numerically study accretion disks that are misaligned (tilted) with respect to the rotation axis of a Kerr black hole. Here we present results of a global numerical simulation which fully…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Chris Fragile , Omer M. Blaes , Peter Anninos , Jay D. Salmonson

Inner accretion disc around a black hole provides a rare, natural probe to understand the fundamental physics of the strong gravity regime. A possible tilt of such a disc, with respect to the black hole spin equator, is important. This is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-02 Chandrachur Chakraborty , Sudip Bhattacharyya

Rotating regular black hole, as a promising extension beyond general relativity, offer a phenomenological model that resolves spacetime singularities. In this study, we investigate the observational features of thin accretion disk around a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-30 Zhen Li

We present results from fully general relativistic three-dimensional numerical studies of thick-disk accretion onto a rapidly-rotating (Kerr) black hole with a spin axis that is tilted (not aligned) with the angular momentum vector of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Chris Fragile , Peter Anninos

In this paper, we analyze a thin disk around the distorted Kerr black hole (DKB) within the framework of general relativity using an axisymmetric solution of the Einstein equations. We consider this accretion disk around the Kerr black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-30 Olya Layeghi , Jamshid Ghanbari , Mahboobe Moeen Moghaddas

We prescribe a method to study the effects of self-gravity of accretion disk around a black hole associated with long Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) in an evolving background Kerr metric. This is an extension to our previous work where we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-02 Ishika Palit , Agnieszka Janiuk , Petra Sukova

It has recently been proposed that the accreting collapsed object GRO J1655--40 could contain a non-zero gravitomagnetic monopole, and hence could be better described with the more general Kerr-Taub-NUT (KTN) spacetime, instead of the Kerr…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Chandrachur Chakraborty , Sudip Bhattacharyya

Recently, Kumar and Ghosh have derived Kerr-like rotating black hole solutions in the framework of four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory of gravity and investigated the black hole shadow. Using the steady-state Novikov-Thorne model,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-16 Mohaddese Heydari-Fard , Malihe Heydari-Fard , Hamid Reza Sepangi

We investigate the structure and emission properties of a thin accretion disk around a rotating charged black hole described by an effective higher-curvature-inspired spacetime, constructed as a phenomenological deformation of the Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Mohammad Hassani , Kourosh Nozari , Sara Saghafi

Prevalent around luminous accreting black holes, thin discs are challenging to resolve in numerical simulations. When the disc and black hole angular momentum vectors are misaligned, the challenge becomes extreme, requiring adaptive meshes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-11 M. Liska , A. Tchekhovskoy , A. Ingram , M. van der Klis

The inner shadow of a black hole, as a projection of the event horizon, is regarded as a potential tool for testing gravitational theories and constraining system parameters. Whether this holds in the case of a tilted accretion disk…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-21 Shiyang Hu , Dan Li , Chen Deng

We use a ray-tracing technique to compute the observed spectrum of a thin accretion disk around a Kerr black hole. We include all relativistic effects such as frame-dragging, Doppler boost, gravitational redshift, and bending of light by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Li-Xin Li , Erik R. Zimmerman , Ramesh Narayan , Jeffrey E. McClintock

We adopt general relativistic ray-tracing (GRRT) schemes to study images of Kerr-MOG black holes surrounded by geometrically thick magnetized equilibrium tori, which belong to steady-state solutions of thick accretion disks within the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-16 Zelin Zhang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

We study quantum gravity effects on radiation properties of thin accretion disks around a renormalization group improved (RGI-) Schwarzschild black hole. In the infrared (IR) limit of the asymptotically safe theory with higher derivatives,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-04 Fabián H. Zuluaga , Luis A. Sánchez

In this chapter, we review some of the interesting consequences that tilt between the spin axis of the black hole and angular momentum axis of the accretion disk can have on the dynamics, thermodynamics, and observational appearance of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 P. Chris Fragile , Matthew Liska

High-resolution, multi-wavelength, and time-domain observations of the Galactic centre black hole candidate, Sgr A*, allow for a direct test of contemporary accretion theory. To date, all models have assumed alignment between the accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Jason Dexter , P. Chris Fragile

In this paper, we apply numerical backward ray-tracing to study the observational appearance of Kerr-Taub-NUT (KTN) black holes illuminated by thin accretion disk flows. We obtained the inner shadow, redshift characteristics, and intensity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-11 Yu-Yan Wang , Meng-Die Zhao , Xin-Yu Wang , Guo-Ping Li

We posit that accreting compact objects, including stellar mass black holes and neutron stars as well as supermassive black holes, may undergo extended periods of accretion during which the angular momentum of the disk at large scales is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 P. Chris Fragile , Peter Anninos , Omer M. Blaes , Jay D. Salmonson

This paper continues the analysis of a set of general relativistic 3D MHD simulations of accreting tori in the Kerr metric with different black hole spins. We focus on bound matter inside the initial pressure maximum, where the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Julian H. Krolik , John F. Hawley , Shigenobu Hirose
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