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We perform two-dimensional radiation hydrodynamical simulations of accretion flows onto black holes (BHs) at the nuclei of protogalaxies, and study the impact of mechanical and radiative feedback on rapid growth of BHs. The outflows deposit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 Eishun Takeo , Kohei Inayoshi , Shin Mineshige

We perform a set of general relativistic, radiative, magneto-hydrodynamical simulations (GR-RMHD) to study the transition from radiatively inefficient to efficient state of accretion on a non-rotating black hole. We study ion to electron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 A. Sadowski , M. Gaspari

Recent results of the event horizon-scale images of M87* and Sagittarius A* from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration show that strong magnetic fields are likely present around the central black holes (BHs) in these sources.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Sera Markoff , Ramesh Narayan

(Abridged) We present one of the first physically-motivated two-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) numerical simulations of a radiatively-cooled black-hole accretion disk. The fiducial simulation combines a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 P. Chris Fragile , David L. Meier

We present a numerical method which evolves a two-temperature, magnetized, radiative, accretion flow around a black hole, within the framework of general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics. As implemented in the code KORAL, the gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 A. Sadowski , M. Wielgus , R. Narayan , D. Abarca , J. C. McKinney , A. Chael

The mass accretion rate of transonic spherical accretion flow onto compact objects such as black holes is known as the Bondi accretion rate(Mdot_B), which is determined only by the density and the temperature of gas at the outer boundary.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Myeong-Gu Park

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

We calculate the structure of accretion disks around Kerr black holes for accretion rates 0.001 - 10 M_sun/s. Such disks are plausible candidates for the central engine of gamma-ray bursts. Our disk model is fully relativistic and treats…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wen-Xin Chen , Andrei M. Beloborodov

Recently, the issue of the role of the Eddington limit in accretion discs became a matter of debate. While the classical (spherical) Eddington limit is certainly an over-simplification, it is not really clear how to treat it in a flattened…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 D. Heinzeller , W. J. Duschl , S. Mineshige , K. Ohsuga

Polarisation measurements by the Event Horizon Telescope from M87$^{\ast}$ and Sgr A$^\ast$ suggest that there is a dynamically strong, ordered magnetic field, typical of what is expected of a magnetically arrested accretion disk (MAD). In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-29 León Salas , Gibwa Musoke , Koushik Chatterjee , Sera Markoff , Oliver Porth , Matthew Liska , Bart Ripperda

We summarize results from a survey of radiation-dominated black hole accretion flows across a wide range of mass accretion rates, as well as two values of black hole spin and initial magnetic field geometry. These models apply an algorithm…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Lizhong Zhang , James M. Stone , Patrick D. Mullen , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang , Christopher J. White

We present the results of global three dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of black hole accretion flows. We focus on the dependence of numerical results on the gas temperature Tout supplied from the outer region. General…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mami Machida , Ryoji Matsumoto

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

This paper investigates the effects of saturated thermal conduction (TC) and thermal-driven winds (TDWs) on magnetized advection-dominated accretion onto a rotating black hole (BH). We incorporate dissipative processes in the magnetized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-20 Biplob Sarkar , Indu Kalpa Dihingia , Ranjeev Misra

We investigate the impact of radiation pressure on the circumbinary discs surrounding accreting massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) at milli-parsec separations, using 3D hyper-Lagrangian resolution hydrodynamic simulations. The circumbinary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-18 Fabiola Cocchiararo , Alessia Franchini , Alessandro Lupi , Alberto Sesana

Feedback from energy liberated by gas accretion onto black holes (BHs) is an attractive mechanism to explain the exponential cut-off at the massive end of the galaxy stellar mass function (SMF). Semi-analytic models of galaxy formation in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Y. M. Rosas-Guevara , R. G. Bower , J. Schaye , M. Furlong , C. S. Frenk , C. M. Booth , R. Crain , C. Dalla Vecchia , M. Schaller , T. Theuns

By performing 2.5-dimensional special relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations, we study the super-critical accretion disks and the outflows launched via the radiation force. We find that the outflow is accelerated by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Ken Ohsuga

The standard thin disk model predicts that when the accretion rate is over a small fraction of the Eddington rate, which corresponds to $L \ga 0.06 L_{Edd}$, the inner region of the disk is radiation-pressure-dominated and thermally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Sheng-Ming Zheng , Feng Yuan , Wei-Min Gu , Ju-Fu Lu

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

We obtained steady solutions of optically thin, single temperature, magnetized black hole accretion disks assuming thermal bremsstrahlung cooling. Based on the results of 3D MHD simulations of accretion disks, we assumed that the magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 H. Oda , M. Machida , K. E. Nakamura , R. Matsumoto