English
Related papers

Related papers: Low Angular Momentum Black Hole Accretion: First G…

200 papers

We investigate the global structure of general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic (GRMHD) accretion flows around Kerr black holes containing shock waves, where the disk is threaded by radial and toroidal magnetic fields. We self-consistently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-12 Samik Mitra , Santabrata Das

In this proceeding, we provide a novel approach to study the General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) accretion flows around rotating black holes (BHs). In doing so, we choose a sub-Keplerian distribution of angular momentum of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-11 Samik Mitra

General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulations are an indispensable tool in studying accretion onto compact objects. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) frequently uses libraries of ideal GRMHD simulations to interpret…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-27 Vedant Dhruv , Ben Prather , George Wong , Charles F. Gammie

Using high-resolution general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations, we investigate accretion flows around spinning black holes and identify three distinct accretion states. Our results suggest the origin of the complex…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Rohan Raha , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Koushik Chatterjee

We present simulation results examining the presence and behavior of standing shocks in zero-energy low angular momentum advective accretion flows and explore their (in)stabilities properties taking into account various specific angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-18 Jun-Xiang Huang , Chandra B. Singh

We study low angular momentum, advective accretion flows around a Kerr black hole within the framework of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) in the steady state. By solving the full set of GRMHD equations, we aim to provide a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-07 Gargi Sen , Debaprasad Maity , Santabrata Das

Fast and slow magnetosonic shock formation is presented for stationary and axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) accretion flows onto a black hole. The shocked black hole accretion solution must pass through magnetosonic points at some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Takahashi , J. Goto , K. Fukumura , D. Rilett , S. Tsuruta

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 Samik Mitra , Debaprasad Maity , Indu Kalpa Dihingia , Santabrata Das

The episodic dynamics of the magnetic eruption of a spinning black hole (BH) accretion disks and its associated intense shapeup of their jets is studied via three-dimensional general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD). The embedded…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-16 Akira Mizuta , Toshikazu Ebisuzaki , Toshiki Tajima , Shigehiro Nagataki

Theoretical models have long predicted the existence of shocks in multi-transonic accretion flows onto a black hole, yet their fate under realistic general relativistic simulations has not been fully tested. In this study, we present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 Indu K. Dihingia , Akhil Uniyal , Yosuke Mizuno

To understand the decaying phase of outbursts in the black hole (BH) X-ray binaries (BH-XRBs), we performed very long general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of a geometrically thin accretion disk around a Kerr BH with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-29 I. K. Dihingia , Y. Mizuno , P. Sharma

We study the stability of standing shock waves in advection-dominated accretion flows into a Schwarzschild black hole by 2D general relativistic hydrodynamic simulations as well as linear analysis in the equatorial plane. We demonstrate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hiroki Nagakura , Shoichi Yamada

We present 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic(GRMHD) simulations of zero angular momentum accretion around a rapidly rotating black hole, modified by the presence of initially uniform magnetic fields. We consider serveral angles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-17 Sean M. Ressler , Eliot Quataert , Christopher J. White , Omer Blaes

A selection of results from the general relativistic MHD accretion simulations described in the previous talk are presented. We find that the magnetic field strength increases sharply with decreasing radius and is also enhanced near…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. H. Krolik , S. Hirose

In low-luminosity active galactic nuclei like M87* and Sgr A*, the accretion disk around the central supermassive black hole is tenuous and collisionless. As a result, the usual ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) approximation may not be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-26 John M. Mehlhaff , Alexander Y. Chen , Martin Luepker , Yajie Yuan

Simulating accretion and feedback from the horizon scale of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) out to galactic scales is challenging because of the vast range of scales involved. Elaborating on H. Cho et al., we describe and test a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-23 Hyerin Cho , Ben S. Prather , Kung-Yi Su , Ramesh Narayan , Priyamvada Natarajan

We present the first dynamical model of plasma accretion onto traversable wormholes by performing General Relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical (GRMHD) simulations of the flow on both sides of the wormhole. We evolve the ideal MHD equations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-14 Luciano Combi , Huan Yang , Eduardo Gutierrez , Scott C. Noble , Gustavo E. Romero , Manuela Campanelli

A black hole (BH) travelling through a uniform, gaseous medium is described by Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton (BHL) accretion. If the medium is magnetized, then the black hole can produce relativistic outflows. We performed the first 3D,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Nicholas Kaaz , Ariadna Murguia-Berthier , Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

We characterize the nature of thin, axisymmetric, inviscid, accretion flows of cold adiabatic gas with zero specific energy in the vicinity of a black hole by the specific angular momentum. Using two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Dongsu Ryu , Sandip K. Chakrabarti , Diego Molteni

We extend the work by Appl and Camenzind (1988) for special relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) jets, to fully general relativistic studies of the standing shock formation for accreting MHD plasma in a rotating, stationary and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masaaki Takahashi , Darrell Rilett , Keigo Fukumura , Sachiko Tsuruta
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›