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We present numerical simulations of the axisymmetric accretion of a massive magnetized plasma torus on a rotating black hole. We use a realistic equation of state, which takes into account neutrino cooling and energy loss due to nucleus…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Maxim V. Barkov , Anton N. Baushev

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

We propose a simple analytical jet model of magnetic jets, in which radially-averaged profiles of main physical quantities are obtained based on conservation laws and some results of published GRMHD jet simulations. We take into account…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-15 Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Lukasz Stawarz , Marek Sikora , Krzysztof Nalewajko

Observations of $\rm SgrA^*$ have provided a lot of insight on low-luminosity accretion, with a handful of bright flares accompanied with orbital motion close to the horizon. It has been proposed that gas supply comes from stellar winds in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-01 Antonios Nathanail , Prasun Dhang , Christian M. Fromm

We compute a series of three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accretion flows in the Kerr metric to investigate the properties of the unbound outflows that result. The overall strength of these outflows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 John F. Hawley , Julian H. Krolik

Combined influence of rotation of a black hole and ambient magnetic fields creates conditions for powerful astrophysical processes of accretion and outflow of matter which are observed in many systems across the range of masses; from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-26 Ondrej Kopacek , Vladimir Karas

The formation of jets in black hole accretion systems is a long-standing problem. It has been proposed that a jet can be formed by extracting the rotation energy of the black hole ("BZ-jet") or the accretion flow ("disk-jet"). While both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-26 Hai Yang , Feng Yuan , Hui Li , Yosuke Mizuno , Fan Guo , Rusen Lu , Luis C. Ho , Xi Lin , Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Jieshuang Wang

A popular model for jet collimation is associated with the presence of a large-scale and predominantly toroidal magnetic field originating from the central engine (a star, a black hole, or an accretion disk). Besides the problem of how such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Li-Xin Li

The origin of jets emitted from black holes is not well understood, however there are two possible energy sources, the accretion disk or the rotating black hole. Magnetohydrodynamic simulations show a well-defined jet that extracts energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vladimir Semenov , Sergey Dyadechkin , Brian Punsly

Recent advances in general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic modeling of jets offer unprecedented insights into the inner workings of accreting black holes that power the jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) and other accretion systems. I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Jonathan C. McKinney , Ramesh Narayan

We have performed several simulations of black hole systems (non-rotating, black hole spin parameter a=0.0 and rapidly rotating, a=0.95) with a geometrically thin Keplerian disk using the newly developed RAISHIN code. The simulation results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yosuke Mizuno , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa , Shinji Koide , Philip Hardee , Gerald J. Fishman

The dynamics of black hole magnetospheres critically depend on the black hole spin and on the structure of the accretion flow. In the limit of a Schwarzschild black hole immersed in a zero-net angular momentum flow, accretion is spherical.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-05 Enzo Figueiredo , John Mehlhaff , Adrien Soudais , Benoît Cerutti

Relativistic jets and disc-winds are typically observed in BH-XRBs and AGNs. However, many physical details of jet launching and the driving of disc winds from the underlying accretion disc are still not fully understood. In this study, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Indu K. Dihingia , Bhargav Vaidya , Christian Fendt

We consider the power of a relativistic jet accelerated by the magnetic field of an accretion disc. It is found that the power extracted from the disc is mainly determined by the field strength and configuration of the field far from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xinwu Cao

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

Winds and jets are symbiotic when the accretion rate is low, according to black hole accretion theory. Both components are potentially important for active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback, but previous works typically include only jets with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-01 Minhang Guo , Suoqing Ji , Feng Yuan , Bocheng Zhu

Magnetic fields regulate black hole (BH) accretion, governing both inflow and outflow dynamics. When a BH accumulates substantial vertical magnetic flux, it enters the magnetically arrested disk (MAD) state, where dynamically important…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-18 Koushik Chatterjee , Nicholas Kaaz , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Sera Markoff

Strong toroidal magnetic fields generated in stellar collapse can generate magneto-centrifugal jets in analogy to those found in simulations of black hole accretion and explain why all core collapse supernovae are found to be substantially…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Craig Wheeler , David L. Meier , James R. Wilson

Recently, Allen et al. measured a tight correlation between the Bondi accretion rates and jet powers of the nuclei of nearby X-ray luminous elliptical galaxies. We employ two models of jet powering to understand the above correlation and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rodrigo S. Nemmen , Richard G. Bower , Arif Babul , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann

We investigate the extraction of the rotational energy of a black hole under different accreting environment. When the accretion rate is moderate, the accretion disk consists of an outer thin disk and an inner advection-dominated accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-08 Hung-Yi Pu , Kouichi Hirotani , Yosuke Mizuno , Hsiang-Kuang Chang