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Primordial black holes (PBH) accretion in the late Universe can lead to significant mass growth. A larger mass further accelerates the accretion radiation output for PBHs with initial masses greater than one solar mass, potentially leading…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Zi-Xuan Zhang , Junsong Cang , Yu Gao , Hong Li

We present two-temperature, radiative general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of Magnetically Arrested Discs (MAD) that launch powerful relativistic jets. The mass accretion rates of our simulations are scaled to match the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-11 Andrew Chael , Ramesh Narayan , Michael D. Johnson

Upcoming VLBI observations will resolve nearby supermassive black holes, most notably Sagittarius A* and M87, on event horizon-scales. Recent observations of Sagittarius A* with the Event Horizon Telescope have revealed horizon-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Ziri Younsi , Oliver Porth , Yosuke Mizuno , Christian M. Fromm , Hector Olivares

Jet models of Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) data should also conform to the observed jet profiles just downstream. This study evaluates conformance of models of black hole jets to images of the innermost jet of M87. This is a basic test…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-10 Brian Punsly

In April 2017, the Event Horizon Telescope observed the shadow of the supermassive black hole at the core of the elliptical galaxy Messier 87. While the original image was constructed from measurements of the total intensity, full…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Daniel C. M. Palumbo , George N. Wong , Ben S. Prather

We propose the simple new method for extracting the value of the black hole spin from the direct high-resolution image of black hole by using a thin accretion disk model. In this model the observed dark region on the first image of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-07 Vyacheslav I. Dokuchaev , Natalia O. Nazarova

JWST has revealed the apparent evolution of the black hole (BH)-stellar mass ($M_\mathrm{BH}$-$M_\rm{\ast}$) relation in the early Universe, while remaining consistent with the BH-dynamical mass ($M_\mathrm{BH}$-$M_\mathrm{dyn}$) relation.…

Based on an updated Hbeta reverberation mapping (RM) sample of 44 nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN), we propose a novel approach for black hole (BH) mass estimation using two filtered luminosities computed from single-epoch (SE) AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-26 Hua Feng , Yue Shen , Hong Li

The study of black hole (BH) shadows provide crucial insights into the nature of strong gravitational effects and the intricate structure of the spacetime surrounding BHs. In this paper, we explore the shadow of Kerr MOG BH within a plasma…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-30 Saira Yasmin , Khadije Jafarzade , Mubasher Jamil

Non-continuous "jumps" of Apparent Horizons occur generically in 3+1 (binary) black hole evolutions. The dynamical trapping horizon framework suggests a spacetime picture in which these "Apparent Horizon jumps" are understood as spatial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-05 José Luis Jaramillo , Marcus Ansorg , Nicolas Vasset

Understanding the dynamics of low angular momentum accretion flow around black holes (BHs) is essential for probing extreme plasma behavior in strong gravity, where shock formation can naturally produce variability signatures. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-27 Jirong Mao , Indu K. Dihingia , Yosuke Mizuno , Shigehiro Nagataki

Super-Eddington accretion has been proposed to explain the existence of black holes (BHs) with masses exceeding a billion solar masses within the first billion years after the Big Bang. We present a novel accretion disc-based sub-grid model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-04 Wei-Bo Kao , Pedro R. Capelo , Elia Cenci , Lucio Mayer , Alessandro Lupi , Luca Sala

We propose a real-time method to render high-quality images of a non-rotating black hole with an accretion disc and background stars. Our method is based on beam tracing, but uses precomputed tables to find the intersections of each curved…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Eric Bruneton

In currently favoured hierarchical cosmologies, the formation of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) following galaxy mergers is unavoidable. Still, due the complex physics governing the (hydro)dynamics of the post-merger dense environment…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-29 Felipe G. Goicovic , Cristian Maureira-Fredes , Alberto Sesana , Pau Amaro-Seoane , Jorge Cuadra

Context: Magnetic fields play a pivotal role in dynamics of black hole accretion flows and formation of relativistic jets. Observations by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) provided unprecedented insights into accretion structures near…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-04 Saurabh , Maciek Wielgus , Arman Tursunov , Andrei P. Lobanov , Razieh Emami

We present the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX), a mission that will produce the sharpest images in the history of astronomy by extending submillimeter Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) to space. BHEX will discover and measure the bright…

Whilst in galaxy-size simulations, supermassive black holes (SMBH) are entirely handled by sub-grid algorithms, computational power now allows the accretion radius of such objects to be resolved in smaller scale simulations. In this paper,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-29 Ricarda Sylvia Beckmann , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz

We investigate the coupled formation and evolution of galaxies and their embedded supermassive black holes using state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of cosmological structure formation. For the first time, we self-consistently follow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tiziana Di Matteo , Joerg Colberg , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist , Debora Sijacki

Black hole (BH) masses that have been measured by reverberation mapping in active galaxies fall significantly below the correlation between bulge luminosity and BH mass determined from spatially resolved kinematics of nearby normal…

We propose a new imaging technique for radio and optical/infrared interferometry. The proposed technique reconstructs the image from the visibility amplitude and closure phase, which are standard data products of short-millimeter very long…