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In certain scenarios, the accreted angular momentum of plasma onto a black hole could be low; however, how the accretion dynamics depend on the angular momentum content of the plasma is still not fully understood. We present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-23 Ho-Sang Chan , Prasun Dhang , Jason Dexter , Mitchell C. Begelman

In this letter, we investigate Bondi-like accretion flows with zero or low specific angular momentum by performing 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations. In order to check if relativistic jets can be launched magnetically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-06 Tom M. Kwan , Lixin Dai , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

A spinning black hole accreting from a disk of strongly magnetized plasma via a magnetically arrested disk is known to produce an efficient electromagnetic jet powered by the black hole's spin energy. We present general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-11 Angelo Ricarte , Ramesh Narayan , Brandon Curd

Magnetized accretion onto spinning black holes can accumulate a large magnetic flux across the event horizon and launch a pair of relativistic jets via the Blandford-Znajek mechanism. In the magnetically saturated (arrested) state, excess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-30 Krzysztof Nalewajko , Mateusz Kapusta , Bart Ripperda , Alexander A. Philippov

Using long-duration general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of radiatively inefficient accretion discs, the energy, momentum and mass outflow rates from such systems are estimated. Outflows occur via two fairly distinct modes:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Sadowski , R. Narayan , R. Penna , Y. Zhu

We present the results of nine simulations of radiatively-inefficient magnetically arrested disks (MADs) across different values of the black hole spin parameter $a_*$: $-0.9$, $-0.7$, $-0.5$, $-0.3$, 0, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, and 0.9. Each…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Ramesh Narayan , Andrew Chael , Koushik Chatterjee , Angelo Ricarte , Brandon Curd

We present 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic(GRMHD) simulations of zero angular momentum accretion around a rapidly rotating black hole, modified by the presence of initially uniform magnetic fields. We consider serveral angles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-17 Sean M. Ressler , Eliot Quataert , Christopher J. White , Omer Blaes

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

Rotating magnetized compact objects and their accretion discs can generate strong toroidal magnetic fields driving highly magnetized plasmas into relativistic jets. Of significant concern, however, has been that a strong toroidal field in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jonathan C. McKinney , Roger D. Blandford

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

We present three-dimensional (3-D) magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of radiatively inefficient accretion flow around black holes. General relativistic effects are simulated by using the pseudo-Newtonian potential. We start…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yoshiaki Kato , Shin Mineshige , Kazunari Shibata

Astrophysical jets, launched from the immediate vicinity of accreting black holes, carry away large amounts of power in a form of bulk kinetic energy of jet particles and electromagnetic flux. Here we consider a simple analytical model for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-11 Dominika Ł. Król , Łukasz Stawarz , Mitchell C. Begelman , José-María Martí , Manel Perucho , Bohdan A. Petrenko

Rotating black holes are known to launch relativistic jets and accelerate particles provided they accrete a magnetized plasma. However, it remains unclear how the global magnetic field orientation affects the jet powering efficiency. Here,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-27 Enzo Figueiredo , Benoît Cerutti , Kyle Parfrey

We propose a scenario for launching relativistic jets from rotating black holes, in which small-scale magnetic flux loops, sustained by disc turbulence, are forced to inflate and open by differential rotation between the black hole and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Kyle Parfrey , Dimitrios Giannios , Andrei M. Beloborodov

Wind and jet are important medium of AGN feedback thus it is crucial to obtain their properties for the feedback study. In this paper we investigate the properties of wind and jet launched from a magnetized super-Eddington accretion flow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Hai Yang , Feng Yuan , Tom Kwan , Lixin Dai

We present three-dimensional numerical magnetohydrodynamic simulations of radiatively inefficient spherical accretion onto a black hole. The simulations are initialized with a Bondi flow, and with a weak, dynamically unimportant,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Igor V. Igumenshchev , Ramesh Narayan

The accretion of hot slowly rotating gas onto a supermassive black hole is considered. Rotation velocities at the Bondi radius r_B are small in comparison with speed of sound c_s. The centrifugal barrier at a depth r_c = l^2/G M_BH << r_B…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-31 N. A. Inogamov , R. A. Sunyaev

We perform two-dimensional, axisymmetric, magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the collapse of a rotating star of 40 Msun and in the light of the collapsar model of gamma-ray burst. Considering two distributions of angular momentum, up to…

We discuss the importance of large scale strong magnetic field in the removal of angular momentum outward, as well as the possible origin of different kinds of magnetic barrier in advective, geometrically thick, sub-Keplerian accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Tushar Mondal , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Magnetically arrested accretion discs (MADs), where the magnetic pressure in the inner disc is dynamically important, provide an alternative mechanism for regulating accretion to what is commonly assumed in black hole systems. We show that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Jason Dexter , Jonathan C. McKinney , Sera Markoff , Alexander Tchekhovskoy
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