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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

Super-Eddington accretion discs with 3 and 15 dot M_E around black holes with mass 10 M_sun are examined by two-dimensional radiation hydrodynamical calculations extending from the inner disc edge to 5*10^4 r_g and lasting up to \sim 10^6…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Okuda , V. Teresi , E. Toscano , D. Molteni

We present two-temperature, radiative general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of Magnetically Arrested Discs (MAD) that launch powerful relativistic jets. The mass accretion rates of our simulations are scaled to match the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-11 Andrew Chael , Ramesh Narayan , Michael D. Johnson

We carried out three-dimensional global resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the cooling instability in optically thin hot black hole accretion flows by assuming bremsstrahlung cooling. General relativistic effects are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Mami Machida , Kenji Nakamura , Ryoji Matsumoto

We perform axisymmetric two-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of super-Eddington accretion flow and outflow around black holes to examine the properties of radiation and outflow as functions of the black hole mass and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-24 Shogo Yoshioka , Shin Mineshige , Ken Ohsuga , Tomohisa Kawashima , Takaaki Kitaki

We present a set of four three-dimensional, general relativistic, radiation MHD simulations of black hole accretion at super-critical mass accretion rates, $\dot{M} > \dot{M}_{\rm Edd}$. We use these simulations to study how disk properties…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

The classical, relativistic thin-disk theory of Novikov and Thorne (NT) predicts a maximum accretion efficiency of 40% for an optically thick, radiatively efficient accretion disk around a maximally spinning black hole (BH). However, when a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-30 Danilo Morales Teixeira , Mark J. Avara , Jonathan C. McKinney

We use global three dimensional radiation magneto-hydrodynamical simulations to study accretion disks onto a $5\times 10^8M_{\odot}$ black hole with accretion rates varying from $\sim 250L_{Edd}/c^2$ to $1500 L_{Edd}/c^2$. We form the disks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 Yan-Fei Jiang , James Stone , Shane W. Davis

Outflows are inevitably driven from the disk if the vertical component of the black hole (BH) gravity cannot resist the radiation force. We derive the mass loss rate in the outflows by solving a dynamical equation for the vertical gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Xinwu Cao , Wei-Min Gu

We revisit the radiative properties of 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) two-temperature magnetically arrested disk (MAD) models in which electrons are heated by a magnetic turbulent cascade. We focus on studying the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-17 M. Moscibrodzka

Recent numerical cosmological radiation-magnetohydrodynamic-thermochemical-star formation simulations have resolved the formation of quasar accretion disks with Eddington or super-Eddington accretion rates onto supermassive black holes…

Accretion onto supermassive black holes (BHs) can launch relativistic jets that inject energy and momentum into their surroundings. Understanding how such feedback shapes large-scale accretion is key to bridging observations from galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-02 Aretaios Lalakos , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Elias R. Most , Bart Ripperda , Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska

In this work we revisit the steady state, spherically symmetric gas accretion problem from the non-relativistic regime to the ultra-relativistic one. We first perform a detailed comparison between the Bondi and Michel models, and show how…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-09 Alejandro Aguayo-Ortiz , Emilio Tejeda , Olivier Sarbach , Diego López-Cámara

A large-scale closed magnetic field can transfer angular momentum and energy between a black hole (BH) and its surrounding accretion flow. We investigate the effects of this magnetic coupling (MC) process on the dynamics of a hot accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Y. Ma , F. Yuan , D. X. Wang

We present the results of four three-dimensional radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accretion disks around a $10^8$ solar mass black hole, which produce the far ultraviolet spectrum peak and demonstrate a robust physical mechanism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-16 Yan-Fei Jiang , Omer Blaes , Ish Kaul , Lizhong Zhang

For the past twenty-five years, nearly all analyses of accretion disk dynamics have assumed that stress inside the disk is locally proportional to pressure (the "alpha-model") and that this stress goes to zero at the marginally stable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Julian H. Krolik

The standard thin accretion disc model predicts that discs around stellar mass black holes become radiation pressure dominated and thermally unstable once their luminosity exceeds L>0.02 L_Edd. Observationally, discs in the high/soft state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Yucong Zhu , Ramesh Narayan

In our study, we examine a 2D radiation, relativistic, magnetohydrodynamics (Rad-RMHD) accretion flows around a spinning supermassive black hole. We begin by setting an initial equilibrium torus around the black hole, with an embedded…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-18 Ramiz Aktar , Kuo-Chuan Pan , Toru Okuda

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

Neutrino-cooled accretion flow around a black hole, produced by a compact binary merger, is a promising scenario for jet formation and magnetic-driven winds to explain short duration gamma ray bursts (GRBs) central engine and kilonovae…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-06 Fatemeh Hossein Nouri , Agnieszka Janiuk