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(Abridged) We study the dynamical evolution of a stationary, axisymmetric, and perfectly conducting cold accretion disk containing a large-scale magnetic field around a Kerr black hole, trying to understand the relation between accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Li-Xin Li

Sub-solar mass black holes could show up in gravitational wave observations in future and near-solar mass black holes might have been involved in the events GW190425 and GW190814. Since they cannot form from the stellar evolution, their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-19 H. A. Adarsha , Chandrachur Chakraborty , Sudip Bhattacharyya

The exact time-dependent solution is obtained for a magnetic field growth during a spherically symmetric accretion into a black hole (BH) with a Schwarzschild metric. Magnetic field is increasing with time, changing from the initially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-03 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

Magnetic fields in an accretion disk around the central black hole can modify the position of the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) radius and produces the difference for the classical Novikov-Thorne radius. We estimated the ISCO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-27 M. Yu. Piotrovich , Yu. N. Gnedin , N. A. Silant'ev , T. M. Natsvlishvili , S. D. Buliga

The accretion-ejection activities of black holes play a vital role in shaping the Universe. Bright and recurrent black hole X-ray binaries are ideal objects for studying accretion physics across a wide range of accretion rates, providing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-11 Honghui Liu

The $5 - 20 M_\odot$ dark objects in X-ray binary systems and the $10^5 - 10^9 M_\odot$ dark objects in galactic nuclei are currently thought to be the Kerr black holes predicted by General Relativity. However, direct observational evidence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-09 Cosimo Bambi , Enrico Barausse

Continuum spectrum emitted by the accretion disk around quasars hold a wealth of information regarding the strong gravitational field produced by the massive central object. Such strong gravity regime is often expected to exhibit deviations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-30 Indrani Banerjee , Sumanta Chakraborty , Soumitra SenGupta

In the core-accretion formation scenario of gas giants, most of the gas accreting onto a planet is processed through an accretion shock. In this series of papers we study this shock since it is key in setting the forming planet's structure…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Gabriel-Dominique Marleau , Christoph Mordasini , Rolf Kuiper

Cooling flows in galaxy clusters and isolated elliptical galaxies are a source of mass for fueling accretion onto a central supermassive black hole. We calculate the dynamics of accreting matter in the combined gravitational potential of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eliot Quataert , Ramesh Narayan

We present the results of our studies on accretion disks in the proximity of astrophysical black holes. These disks can be of varying degrees of opacity, geometrical shapes, sizes, and volumes. The central compact object is a Schwarzschild…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-27 Leela Elpida Koutsantoniou

Rotating regular black hole, as a promising extension beyond general relativity, offer a phenomenological model that resolves spacetime singularities. In this study, we investigate the observational features of thin accretion disk around a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-30 Zhen Li

Consideration of extra spatial dimensions is motivated by the unification of gravity with other interactions, the achievement of the ultimate framework of quantum gravity, and fundamental problems in particle physics and cosmology. Much…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-10 Kourosh Nozari , Sara Saghafi , Ali Mohammadpour

Accretion onto compact objects is one of the most fundamental phenomena in the astrophysics, powering some of the most luminous objects in the sky. Along with this, accretion has also a key impact on the evolution of the Universe, through…

This study deals with astrophysical accretion onto the charged black hole solution, which is sourced by the dilation, spin, and shear charge of matter in metric affine gravity. The metric affine gravity defines the link between torsion and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-29 G. Mustafa , A. Ditta , Faisal Javed , S. K. Maurya , Himanshu Chaudhary , Farruh Atamurotov

We investigate the structure and emission properties of a thin accretion disk around a rotating charged black hole described by an effective higher-curvature-inspired spacetime, constructed as a phenomenological deformation of the Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Mohammad Hassani , Kourosh Nozari , Sara Saghafi

Radiative cooling can strongly influence the structure and dynamics of black hole accretion disks. Here, we perform general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GR-MHD) simulations of magnetically arrested disks (MADs) around a non-spinning…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Akshay Singh , Damien Begue , Asaf Pe'er

The structure of the inner edge of the accretion disk around a black hole can be altered, if the matter inside the marginally stable orbit is magnetically connected to the disk. In this case, a non-zero torque is exerted on its inner edge,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Xinwu Cao , Y. D. Xu

In this third paper of a series, we study the growth and luminosity of black holes (BHs) in motion with respect to their surrounding medium. We run a large set of two-dimensional (2D) axis-symmetric simulations to explore a large parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 KwangHo Park , Massimo Ricotti

Stellar-mass compact objects (COs) embedded in active galactic nucleus (AGN) discs are commonly assumed to accrete via Bondi or Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton (BHL) prescriptions, neglecting gas angular momentum. We show that differential rotation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-19 Cheng-Liang Jiao , Liying Zhu , Er-gang Zhao , Jia Zhang

We compute the temperature profiles of accretion discs around rapidly rotating strange stars, using constant gravitational mass equilibrium sequences of these objects, considering the full effect of general relativity. Beyond a certain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Sudip Bhattacharyya , Arun V. Thampan , Ignazio Bombaci