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The frequency of compact object interactions in AGN discs is naturally tied to the number of objects embedded within it. We investigate the evolution of black holes in the nuclear stellar cluster on inclined orbits to the AGN disc by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-17 Connar Rowan , Henry Whitehead , Gaia Fabj , Philip Kirkeberg , Martin E. Pessah , Bence Kocsis

Stellar-mass black holes can become embedded within the gaseous disks of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Afterwards, their interactions are mediated by their gaseous surroundings. In this work, we study the evolution of stellar-mass binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Nicholas Kaaz , Sophie Lund Schrøder , Jeff J. Andrews , Andrea Antoni , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Stellar-mass binary black holes (BBHs) embedded in active galactic nucleus (AGN) discs offer a distinct dynamical channel to produce black hole mergers detected in gravitational waves by LIGO/Virgo. To understand their orbital evolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-15 Rixin Li , Dong Lai

We investigate close encounters between initially unbound black holes (BHs) in the gaseous discs of active galactic nuclei (AGN), performing the first 3D non-isothermal hydrodynamical simulations of gas-assisted binary BH formation. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-28 Henry Whitehead , Connar Rowan , Bence Kocsis

Stellar-mass binary black holes (BBHs) embedded in active galactic nucleus (AGN) discs are possible progenitors of black-hole mergers detected in gravitational waves by LIGO/VIRGO. To better understand the hydrodynamical evolution of BBHs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Rixin Li , Dong Lai

We study the close encounters between two single black holes (BHs) embedded in an AGN disk using a series of global 2D hydrodynamics simulations. We find that when the disk density is sufficiently high, bound BH binaries can be formed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-01 Jiaru Li , Adam M. Dempsey , Hui Li , Dong Lai , Shengtai Li

Stellar-mass binary black holes (BBHs) embedded in active galactic nucleus (AGN) discs offer a promising dynamical channel to produce black-hole mergers that are detectable by LIGO/Virgo. Modeling the interactions between the disc gas and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-26 Rixin Li , Dong Lai

Truncated accretion disks are commonly invoked to explain the spectro-temporal variability from accreting black holes in both small systems, i.e. state transitions in galactic black hole binaries (GBHBs), and large systems, i.e.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 J. Drew Hogg , Christopher S. Reynolds

Stellar mass black holes in the disks around active galactic nuclei (AGN) are promising sources for gravitational wave detections by LIGO/VIRGO. Recent studies suggest this environment fosters the formation and merger of binary black holes.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-10 Bhupendra Mishra , Josh Calcino

When gas accretes onto a black hole, at a rate either much less than or much greater than the Eddington rate, it is likely to do so in an "adiabatic" or radiatively inefficient manner. Under fluid (as opposed to MHD) conditions, the disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Roger D. Blandford , Mitchell C. Begelman

In this study, we present a detailed, statistical analysis of black hole growth and the evolution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations run down to $z=0$. The simulations self-consistently follow…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Michaela Hirschmann , Klaus Dolag , Alexandro Saro , Lisa Karin Bachmann , Stefano Borgani , Andreas Burkert

In this paper we consider the process of alignment of a spinning black hole and a surrounding misaligned accretion disc. We use a simplified set of equations, that describe the evolution of the system in the case where the propagation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Lodato , J. E. Pringle

We perform magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accreting, equal-mass binary black holes in full general relativity focusing on the impact of black hole spin on the dynamical formation and evolution of minidisks. We find that during the late…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-13 Vasileios Paschalidis , Jane Bright , Milton Ruiz , Roman Gold

The large galactic scales are connected to the many orders of magnitude smaller supermassive black hole (SMBH) scales by an episodic cycle of feeding and feedback. Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are powered by accretion onto SMBH and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-29 Matas Tartėnas , Kastytis Zubovas

We present hydrodynamic simulations of the interstellar medium (ISM) within the circumnuclear disk (CND) of a typical AGN-dominated galaxy influenced by mechanical feedback from an active galactic nucleus(AGN). The simulations are coupled…

We carry out idealized three-dimensional general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of prograde, weakly magnetized, and geometrically thick accretion flows where the gas distribution is misaligned from the black hole spin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-17 Sajal Gupta , Jason Dexter

We demonstrate the importance of general relativistic apsidal precession in warped black hole accretion discs by comparing three - dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamic simulations in which this effect is first neglected, and then…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-04 Rebecca Nealon , Chris Nixon , Daniel J. Price , Andrew King

One of the greatest issues in modelling black hole fuelling is our lack of understanding of the processes by which gas loses angular momentum and falls from galactic scales down to the nuclear region where an accretion disc forms,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-24 Juan Manuel Carmona-Loaiza , Monica Colpi , Massimo Dotti , Riccardo Valdarnini

Motivated by the increasing number of detections of merging black holes by LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA, black hole (BH) binary mergers in the discs of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is investigated as a possible merger channel. In this pathway, BH…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-12 Connar Rowan , Tjarda Boekholt , Bence Kocsis , Zoltán Haiman

Black holes accreting well below the Eddington rate are believed to have geometrically thick, optically thin, rotationally supported accretion discs in which the Coulomb mean free path is large compared to $GM/c^2$. In such an environment,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-25 Francois Foucart , Mani Chandra , Charles F. Gammie , Eliot Quataert
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