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Supermassive black holes (BH) accrete gas from their surroundings and coalesce with companions during galaxy mergers, and both processes change the BH mass and spin. By means of high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations of galaxies, either…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Yohan Dubois , Marta Volonteri , Joseph Silk , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz

We present three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the fueling of supermassive black holes in elliptical galaxies from a turbulent cooling medium on galactic scales, taking M87* as a typical case. We find that the mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Minghao Guo , James M. Stone , Eliot Quataert , Chang-Goo Kim

We perform a suite of high-resolution smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations to investigate the orbital decay and mass evolution of massive black hole (MBH) pairs down to scales of ~30 pc during minor mergers of disk galaxies. Our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-11 S. Callegari , S. Kazantzidis , L. Mayer , M. Colpi , J. M. Bellovary , T. Quinn , J. Wadsley

Accretion of gas and interaction of matter and radiation are at the heart of many questions pertaining to black hole (BH) growth and coevolution of massive BHs and their host galaxies. To answer them it is critical to quantify how the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-04 KwangHo Park , John H. Wise , Tamara Bogdanović

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

Numerical simulations of black hole hot accretion flows have shown the existence of strong wind. Those works focus only on the region close to black hole thus it is unknown whether or where the wind production stops at large radii. To…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 De-Fu Bu , Feng Yuan , Zhao-Ming Gan , Xiao-Hong Yang

We perform two-dimensional radiation hydrodynamical simulations of accretion flows onto black holes (BHs) at the nuclei of protogalaxies, and study the impact of mechanical and radiative feedback on rapid growth of BHs. The outflows deposit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 Eishun Takeo , Kohei Inayoshi , Shin Mineshige

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

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) have recently been proposed as potential probes for Population III stars. However, the properties of the accretion flow and the wind from the Pop III star TDE system are not clear. By performing radiative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-29 Yu-Heng Sheng , De-Fu Bu , Xiao-Hong Yang , Yi-Ren Chang , Liang Chen

Winds from black hole accretion disks are essential ingredients in understanding the coevolution between the supermassive black hole and its host galaxy. The great difference of dynamical ranges from small-scale accretion disk simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Can Cui , Feng Yuan

The accretion of matter onto black holes and neutron stars often leads to the launching of outflows that can greatly affect the environments surrounding the compact object. In supermassive black holes, these outflows can even be powerful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-13 P. Kosec , E. Kara , A. C. Fabian , F. Fürst , C. Pinto , I. Psaradaki , C. S. Reynolds , D. Rogantini , D. J. Walton , R. Ballhausen , C. Canizares , S. Dyda , R. Staubert , J. Wilms

The central supermassive black hole (SMBH) of the Andromeda galaxy, known as M31*, exhibits dim electromagnetic emission and is inferred to have an extremely low accretion rate for its remarkable mass ($\sim10^8~\rm~M_\odot$). In this work,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-16 Zhao Su , Zhiyuan Li , Zongnan Li

We present the results of three-dimensional global resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of black hole accretion flows. General relativistic effects are simulated by using the pseudo-Newtonian potential. Initial state is an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mami Machida , Ryoji Matsumoto

Outflows produced by a supermassive black hole (SMBH) can have important feedback effects in its host galaxy. An unresolved question is the nature and properties of winds from SMBHs accreting at low rates in low-luminosity active galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-30 Ivan Almeida , Rodrigo Nemmen

We report on simulations in general relativity of magnetized disks onto black hole binaries. We vary the binary mass ratio from 1:1 to 1:10 and evolve the systems when they orbit near the binary-disk decoupling radius. We compare (surface)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Roman Gold , Vasileios Paschalidis , Zachariah B. Etienne , Stuart L. Shapiro , Harald P. Pfeiffer

Newtonian simulations have demonstrated that accretion onto binary black holes produces accretion disks around each black hole ("minidisks"), fed by gas streams flowing through the circumbinary cavity from the surrounding circumbinary disk.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-02 Geoffrey Ryan , Andrew MacFadyen

We describe global, 3D, time-dependent, non-radiative, general-relativistic, magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accreting black holes (BHs). The simulations are designed to transport a large amount of magnetic flux to the center, more than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Ramesh Narayan , Jonathan C. McKinney

We study the orbital decay of a pair of massive black holes (BHs) with masses 5 * 10^5 and 10^7 M_sun, using hydrodynamical simulations of circumnuclear disks (CNDs) with the alternating presence of sub-grid physics such as radiative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 Rafael Souza Lima , Lucio Mayer , Pedro R. Capelo , Jillian M. Bellovary

The 2D time dependent solution of thin accretion disk in a close binary system have been presented on the equatorial plane around the Schwarzschild black hole. To do that, the special part of the General Relativistic Hydrodynamical(GRH)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Orhan Donmez

Accretion at sustained or episodic super-Eddington (SE) rates has been proposed as a pathway to grow efficiently light seeds produced by Pop-III stars. We investigate if SE accretion can be sustained onto a black hole (BH) with $M_{\odot}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 Federica Sassano , Pedro R. Capelo , Lucio Mayer , Raffaella Schneider , Rosa Valiante