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Relativistic jets around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are well-known powerful $\gamma$-ray emitters. In absence of the jets in radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (AGNs), how the SMBHs work in $\gamma$-ray bands is still unknown despite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-25 Jun-Rong Liu , Jian-Min Wang , Fermi-LAT Collaboration

Recent observations of radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (RQAGN) have shown the presence of millimeter emission, whose origin remains unknown, from within parsec scales of the central black hole. We argue that the mm emission comes from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-02 A. Hankla , A. Philippov , R. Mbarek , R. Mushotzky , G. Musoke , D. Grošelj , M. Liska

The study of heavily obscured supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth in late-stage galaxy mergers is challenging: column densities $N_{\mathrm{H}}>10^{24},\mathrm{cm}^{-2}$ can block most nuclear emission, leaving significant gaps in the…

A tight correlation between nuclear millimeter (mm) and X-ray emission has recently been found in nearby ($z < 0.01$) and low-Eddington ratio ($\rm \lambda_{Edd} < 0.1$) radio-quiet (RQ) Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), suggesting a common…

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are powerful sources of panchromatic radiation. All AGN emit in X-rays, contributing around $\sim 5-10\%$ of the AGN bolometric luminosity. The X-ray emitting region, popularly known as the corona, is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-24 Sibasish Laha , Claudio Ricci , John C. Mather , Ehud Behar , Luigi C. Gallo , Frederic Marin , Rostom Mbarek , Amelia Hankla

The supermassive black holes ($M_{\rm BH} \sim 10^{6}$$-$$10^{10}~M_\odot$) that power luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs), i.e., quasars, generally show a correlation between thermal disk emission in the ultraviolet (UV) and coronal…

We calculate the radiation spectrum and its time variability of the black hole accretion disk-corona system based on the three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation. In explaining the spectral properties of active galactic nuclei…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Norita Kawanaka , Yoshiaki Kato , Shin Mineshige

Chandra has detected optically thin, thermal X-ray emission with a size of ~1 arcsec and luminosity ~10^33 erg/s from the direction of the Galactic supermassive black hole (SMBH), Sgr A*. We suggest that a significant or even dominant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 S. Sazonov , R. Sunyaev , M. Revnivtsev

We investigate whether reconnection of small-scale current sheets in transrelativistic supermassive black hole (SMBH) coronae can supply the nonthermal protons needed for high-energy neutrino emission, using NGC 1068 as a test case. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Omar French , Gregory R. Werner , Mitchell C. Begelman

The bulk of the X-ray emission in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is produced very close to the accreting supermassive black hole (SMBH), in a corona of hot electrons which up scatters optical and ultraviolet photons from the accretion flow.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-19 C. Ricci , L. C. Ho , A. C. Fabian , B. Trakhtenbrot , M. J. Koss , Y. Ueda , A. Lohfink , T. Shimizu , F. E. Bauer , R. Mushotzky , K. Schawinski , S. Paltani , I. Lamperti , E. Treister , K. Oh

The X-ray emission from bright active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is believed to originate in a hot corona lying above a cold, geometrically thin accretion disk. A highly concentrated corona located within $\sim10$ gravitational radii above the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-04 B. F. Liu , Ronald E. Taam , Erlin Qiao , Weimin Yuan

Recent studies have proposed that the nuclear millimeter continuum emission observed in nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN) could be created by the same population of electrons that gives rise to the X-ray emission that is ubiquitously…

Radio emission from the high- and super-Eddington accreting active galactic nuclei (AGNs) has various origins: a persistent jet, the magnetized corona and the wind-like outflows. It is now still unclear which is the leading mechanism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-16 Xiaolong Yang , Su Yao , Jun Yang , Luis C. Ho , Tao An , Ran Wang , Willem A. Baan , Minfeng Gu , Xiang Liu , Xiaofeng Yang , Ravi Joshi

The heating mechanism of a corona above an accretion disk in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is still unknown. One possible mechanism is magnetic reconnection heating requiring energy equipartition between magnetic energy and gas energy in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-11 Yoshiyuki Inoue , Akihiro Doi

Modeling the spectral energy distribution (SED) of active galactic nuclei (AGN) plays a very important role in constraining modern cosmological simulations of galaxy formation. Here, we utilize an advanced supermassive black hole (SMBH)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-23 Tong Su , Qi Guo , Erlin Qiao , Wenxiang Pei , Luis C. Ho , Cedric G. Lacey

Using a sample of 208 broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from Swift/BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey in ultra-hard X-ray band ($14-195$ keV), the hot corona properties are investigated, i.e. the fraction of gravitational energy dissipated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-19 Chan Wang , Li-Ming Yu , Wei-Hao Bian , Bi-Xuan Zhao

Central supermassive black holes of active galactic nuclei host hot plasma with a temperature of $10^9$ K, namely coronae. Like the Sun, black hole coronae are theoretically believed to be heated by their magnetic activity, which have never…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-26 Yoshiyuki Inoue , Akihiro Doi

We revisit black hole mass estimates for high-redshift broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) discovered with JWST by jointly analysing their broad emission lines and their systematic non-detections in deep Chandra imaging. Building upon…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-27 Alessandro Trinca , Alessandro Lupi , Francesco Haardt , Piero Madau

The central nuclei of galaxies, where super-massive black holes (SMBHs) are thought to reside, can experience phases of activity when they become Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). An AGN can eject winds, jets, and produce radiation across the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-18 Francesca Panessa , Ranieri D. Baldi , Ari Laor , Paolo Padovani , Ehud Behar , Ian McHardy

The different electron distributions in the hard and soft spectral states (HS and SS) of BH binaries could be caused by kinetic processes and changing because of varying physical conditions in the corona. In presence of a magnetic field in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Melania Del Santo , Julien Malzac , Renaud Belmont , Laurent Bouchet , Giovanni De Cesare
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