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We present a novel approach to study the global structure of steady, axisymmetric, advective, geometrically thin, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) accretion flow around black holes in full general relativity (GR). Considering ideal MHD conditions…

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Recently, Cui et al. [Nature \textbf{621}, 711 (2023)] reported that the jet nozzle of M87* exhibits a precession with a period of approximately 11 years. This finding strongly suggests that the supermassive black hole in the core of M87…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-03 Shao-Wen Wei , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Yu-Peng Zhang , Yu-Xiao Liu

The existence of the radius of marginal stability means that accretion flows around black holes invariably undergo a transition from a MHD turbulent disk-like flow to an inward plunging flow. We argue that the plunging inflow can greatly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Christopher S. Reynolds , David Garofalo , Mitchell C. Begelman

Supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) is expected with the hierarchical galaxy formation model. Currently, physics processes dominating the evolution of a SMBHB are unclear. An interesting question is whether we could observationally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. K. Liu , X. Chen

This is the fourth paper of our series of works studying winds from hot accretion flows around black holes. In the first two papers, we have shown the existence of strong winds in hot accretion flows using hydrodynamical and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Hai Yang , Feng Yuan , Ye-fei Yuan , Christopher J. White

Relativistic jets from supermassive black holes are among the most powerful and luminous astrophysical systems in Universe. We propose that the open magnetic field lines through the black hole, which drive a strongly magnetized jet, may…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-13 Haocheng Zhang , Dimitrios Giannios

We describe a set of simulations of super-critical accretion onto a non-rotating supermassive BH. The accretion flow is radiation pressure dominated and takes the form of a geometrically thick disk with twin low-density funnels around the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

General relativistic numerical simulations of magnetized accretion flows around black holes show a disordered electromagnetic structure in the disk and corona and a highly relativistic, Poynting-dominated funnel jet in the polar regions.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan C. McKinney , Ramesh Narayan

After the Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) of a star around a SuperMassive Black Hole (SMBH), the bound stellar debris rapidly forms an accretion disk. If the accretion disk is not aligned with the spinning SMBH's equatorial plane, the disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 J. J. Zanazzi , Dong Lai

M87 has been the target of numerous astronomical observations across the electromagnetic spectrum and Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) resolved an edge-brightened jet. However, the origin and formation of its jets remain unclear. In…

The recent discovery of a roughly simultaneous periodic variability in the light curves of the BL Lac object PG 1553+113 at several electromagnetic bands represents the first case of such odd behavior reported in the literature. Motivated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-27 Anderson Caproni , Zulema Abraham , Juliana Cristina Motter , Hektor Monteiro

We perform three general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of black hole accretion designed to test how sensitive results are to grid resolution in the jet region. The cases differ only in numerics, modelling the same physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Christopher J. White , Fiona Chrystal

We show that it is possible to explain the physical origin of jet precession in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) through the misalignment between the rotation axes of the accretion disk and of the Kerr black hole. We apply this scenario to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-24 Anderson Caproni , Herman J. Mosquera Cuesta , Zulema Abraham

Very recent analysis of the radio spectral index and high energy observations have shown that the two-peak accretion/ejection microquasar model applies for LSI+61303. The fast variations of the position angle observed with MERLIN and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Massi , L. Zimmermann

Geometrically thick accretion flows may be present in black hole X-ray binaries observed in the low/hard state and in low-luminosity active galactic nuclei. Unlike in geometrically thin disks, the angular momentum axis in these sources is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 Jason Dexter , P. Chris Fragile

We study the spherical accretion of magnetized plasma with low angular momentum onto a supermassive black hole, utilizing global general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations. Black hole-driven feedback in the form of magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-10 Alisa Galishnikova , Alexander Philippov , Eliot Quataert , Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska

We study the accretion flow from a counter-rotating torus orbiting a central Kerr black hole (BH). We characterize the flow properties at the turning point of the accreting matter flow from the orbiting torus, defined by the condition…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 D. Pugliese , Z. Stuchlik

Theoretical studies of transonic accretion onto black holes reveal a wide range of possible solutions, broadly classified into smooth flows and flows featuring shocks. Accretion solutions that involve the formation of shocks are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-16 Raj Kishor Joshi , Antonios Tsokaros , Sanjit Debnath , Indranil Chattopadhyay , Ramiz Aktar

Relativistic collimated outflows, or jets, provide a crucial mode of active galactic nucleus feedback. Although jets extract their energy from the black hole (BH) rotation, their effect on the BH spin is poorly understood. Because the spin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-09 Beverly Lowell , Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

Stationary and axisymmetric ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) accretion onto a black hole is studied analytically. The accreting plasma ejected from a plasma source with low velocity must be super-fast magnetosonic before passing through the…

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