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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…

By solving radiative transfer equations, we examine three-dimensional radiative properties of a magnetohydrodynamic accretion flow model confronting with the observed spectrum of Sgr A*, in the vicinity of supermassive black hole at the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Y. Kato , M. Umemura , K. Ohsuga

We investigate the properties of accretion flows onto a black hole (BH) with a mass of $M_{\rm BH}$ embedded in an initially uniform gas cloud with a density of $n_{\infty}$ in order to study rapid growth of BHs in the early Universe. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-30 Eishun Takeo , Kohei Inayoshi , Ken Ohsuga , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Shin Mineshige

We investigate state transitions in black hole X-ray binaries through different parameters by using two-dimensional axisymmetric hydrodynamical simulation method. For radiative cooling in hot accretion flow, we take into account the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 Mao-Chun Wu , Fu-Guo Xie , Ye-Fei Yuan , Zhao-Ming Gan

We perform two-dimensional radiation hydrodynamical simulations of accretion flows onto a black hole (BH) with a mass of $10^3\leq M_{\rm BH}/M_{\odot} \lesssim 10^6$ in order to study rapid growth of BHs in the early Universe. For…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 E. Takeo , K. Inayoshi , K. Ohsuga , H. R. Takahashi , S. Mineshige

We report that moderately eccentric flows around supermassive black holes (SMBHs), formed via either circumnuclear gas accretion or tidal disruption events, generate eccentricity cascades (from >0.8 to 0.2 outward), explaining…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-31 Hongping Deng

Black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs) show rich phenomenology in the spectral and timing properties. We collected the spectral data of 20 BHXBs from the literature across different spectral states. The spectral properties are studied in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 Arghajit Jana

Merging supermassive black hole-black hole (BHBH) binaries produced in galaxy mergers are promising sources of detectable gravitational waves. If such a merger takes place in a gaseous environment, there is a possibility of a simultaneous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-05-12 Brian D. Farris , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro

We study the thermal and viscous stability of accretion flows in Low Mass Black Hole Binaries (LMBHBs). We consider a model in which an inner advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF) is surrounded by a geometrically thin accretion disk,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kristen Menou , Ramesh Narayan , Jean-Pierre Lasota

We demonstrate that gas disks around binary systems might deliver gas to the binary components only when the circumbinary disk is relatively warm. We present new grid-based hydrodynamics simulations, performed with the binary on the grid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-17 Christopher Tiede , Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen , Zoltan Haiman

In this chapter, we give an overview of our current understanding of the physics of accreting massive black hole binaries (MBHBs), with a special focus on the latest developments in numerical simulations and General-Relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-24 Eduardo M. Gutiérrez , Luciano Combi , Geoffrey Ryan

We discuss the expected X-ray spectral and variability properties of black hole accretion discs at high luminosity, under the hypothesis that radiation pressure dominated discs are subject to violent clumping instabilities and, as a result,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 A. Merloni , J. Malzac , A. C. Fabian , R. R. Ross

We consider the evolution of a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) surrounded by a retrograde accretion disk. Assuming the disk is exactly in the binary plane and transfers energy and angular momentum to the binary via direct gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Jeremy D. Schnittman , Julian H. Krolik

We study the energetics of the accretion-induced outflow and then plausible jet around black holes/compact objects using a newly developed disc-outflow coupled model. Inter-connecting dynamics of outflow and accretion essentially upholds…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-28 Shubhrangshu Ghosh , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Vinod Krishan , Manoranjan Khan

Understanding the physics and geometry of accretion and ejection around super massive black holes (SMBHs) is important to understand the evolution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and therefore of the large scale structures of the Universe.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-11 Margherita Giustini , Daniel Proga

We present the results of a calculation of the thermal spectrum from a 2D, moving mesh, high-accuracy, viscous hydrodynamical simulation of an accreting supermassive black hole binary. We include viscous heating, shock heating, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Brian D. Farris , Paul Duffell , Andrew I. MacFadyen , Zoltan Haiman

We investigate the viscous two temperature accretion discs around rotating black holes. We describe the global solution of accretion flows with a sub-Keplerian angular momentum profile, by solving the underlying conservation equations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 S. R. Rajesh , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We study spectral and time variability of accreting massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) at milli-pc separations surrounded by a geometrically thin circumbinary disc. We present the first computed spectral energy distribution (SED) and light…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-20 Fabiola Cocchiararo , Alessia Franchini , Alessandro Lupi , Alberto Sesana

We investigate the transition of a radiatively inefficient phase of a viscous two temperature accreting flow to a cooling dominated phase and vice versa around black holes. Based on a global sub-Keplerian accretion disc model in steady…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Monika Sinha , S. R. Rajesh , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

This is a general review on the observations and physics of black hole X-ray binaries and microquasars, with the emphasize on recent developments in the high energy regime. The focus is put on understanding the accretion flows and measuring…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-04 Shuang-Nan Zhang