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Black hole (BH) mergers are natural sources of gravitational waves (GWs) and are possibly associated with electromagnetic events. Such events from a charged rotating BH with an accretion on to it could be more energetic and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-27 Shad Ali

Multiwavelength variability data, combined with spectral-timing analysis techniques, provides information about the causal relationship between different physical components in accreting black holes. Using fast-timing data and long-term…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-12 Phil Uttley , Piergiorgio Casella

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

One possible scenario for the formation of massive black holes (BHs) in the early Universe is from the direct collapse of primordial gas in atomic-cooling dark matter haloes in which the gas is unable to cool efficiently via molecular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jarrett L. Johnson , Sadegh Khochfar , Thomas H. Greif , Fabrice Durier

Black hole binary systems can emit very bright and rapidly varying X-ray signals when material from the companion accretes onto the black hole, liberating huge amounts of gravitational potential energy. Central to this process of accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Adam Ingram

Accreting supermassive black hole binaries are powerful multimessenger sources emitting both gravitational and EM radiation. Understanding the accretion dynamics of these systems and predicting their distinctive EM signals is crucial to…

The galactic black hole binary systems give an observational template showing how the accretion flow changes as a function of increasing mass accretion rate, or L/L_Edd. These data can be synthetised with theoretical models of the accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Chris Done , Marek Gierlinski

Context. The Bondi spherical accretion solution has been used to model accretion onto compact objects in a variety of situations, from interpretation of observations to subgrid models in cosmological simulations. Aims. We aim to investigate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-03 Razieh Ranjbar , Héctor R. Olivares-Sánchez

We consider the effect of accretion of radiation in the early universe on primordial black holes in Brans-Dicke theory. The rate of growth of a primordial black hole due to accretion of radiation in Brans-Dicke theory is considerably…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-03 B. Nayak , A. S. Majumdar , L. P. Singh

We study the long-term evolution of the global structure of axisymmetric accretion flows onto a black hole (BH) at rates substantially higher than the Eddington value ($\dot{M}_{\rm Edd}$), performing two-dimensional hydrodynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-01 Haojie Hu , Kohei Inayoshi , Zoltán Haiman , Eliot Quataert , Rolf Kuiper

We study an accretion flow during the gravitational-wave driven evolution of binary massive black holes. After the binary orbit decays due to an interaction with a massive circumbinary disk, the binary is decoupled from the circumbinary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Kimitake Hayasaki

Spectral features can arise by reflection of coronal X-rays on a black hole accretion disc. The resulting profile bears various imprints of strong gravitational field acting on the light emitting gas. The observed shape of the reflection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 V. Sochora , V. Karas , J. Svoboda , M. Dovciak

The exact time-dependent solution is obtained for a magnetic field growth during a spherically symmetric accretion into a black hole (BH) with a Schwarzschild metric. Magnetic field is increasing with time, changing from the initially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-03 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

We investigate the imprints of accretion and dynamical friction on the gravitational-wave signals emitted by binary black holes embedded in a scalar dark matter cloud. As a key feature in this work, we focus on scalar fields with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-31 Alexis Boudon , Philippe Brax , Patrick Valageas , Leong Khim Wong

Binary black hole (BBH) systems residing in the centers of galaxies evolve within complex astrophysical environments. These environments, comprising dark matter (DM) halos and baryonic accretion disks, can significantly alter the orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-31 Meng Xu , Zhijin Li , Xiao Guo , Yun-Long Zhang

We present a theoretical study of the gravitational wave (GW) driven inspirals of accreting black hole binaries with mass $M = 10^7 M_\odot$ and mass ratios between $10^{-3}$ and $10^{-1}$. Our results are based on analytic estimates, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-09 Madeline Clyburn , Jonathan Zrake

In this third paper of a series, we study the growth and luminosity of black holes (BHs) in motion with respect to their surrounding medium. We run a large set of two-dimensional (2D) axis-symmetric simulations to explore a large parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 KwangHo Park , Massimo Ricotti

We present three-dimensional Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations investigating the dependence of the accretion rate on the disc thickness around an equal-mass, circular black hole binary system. We find that for thick/hot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Enrico Ragusa , Giuseppe Lodato , Daniel J. Price

In this thesis we study the phenomenon of superradiance and its implications to the stability of black-holes (BH) and perfect-fluid stars. Superradiance is a radiation enhancement process that involves rotating dissipative systems. In BH…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-26 João Luís de Figueiredo Rosa

An analytic model of the evolution of a rotating black hole (BH) is proposed by considering the coexistence of disk accretion with the Blandford-Znajek process. The evolutionary characteristics of the BH are described in terms of three…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ding-Xiong Wang , Wei-Hua Lei , Kan Xiao , Ren-Yi Ma