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We present global 3D radiation magnetohydrodynamical simulations of accretion onto a 6.62 solar mass black hole with quasi-steady state accretion rates reaching 0.016 to 0.9 times the critical accretion rate, which is defined as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Jiahui Huang , Yan-Fei Jiang , Hua Feng , Shane W. Davis , James M. Stone , Matthew J. Middleton

We present results from two long-duration GRMHD simulations of advection-dominated accretion around a non-spinning black hole. The first simulation was designed to avoid significant accumulation of magnetic flux around the black hole. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Ramesh Narayan , Aleksander Sadowski , Robert F. Penna , Akshay K. Kulkarni

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

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has imaged the shadow of the supermassive black hole in M87. A library of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GMRHD) models was fit to the observational data, providing constraints on black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-09 Freek Roelofs , Christian M. Fromm , Yosuke Mizuno , Jordy Davelaar , Michael Janssen , Ziri Younsi , Luciano Rezzolla , Heino Falcke

We present a detailed three dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation describing the inner region of a disk accreting onto a black hole. To avoid the technical complications of general relativity, the dynamics are treated in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John F. Hawley , Julian H. Krolik

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…

We report results from simulations in general relativity of magnetized disks accreting onto merging black hole binaries, starting from relaxed disk initial data. The simulations feature an effective, rapid radiative cooling scheme as a…

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) imaging of the supermassive black holes at the centers of Messier 87 galaxy and the Milky Way galaxy marks a significant step in observing the photon rings and central brightness depression that define the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-14 Soroush Zare , Luis M. Nieto , Xing-Hui Feng , Shi-Hai Dong , Hassan Hassanabadi

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

While supermassive binary black holes inspiral toward merger they may also experience significant accretion of matter from a surrounding disk. We study the dynamics of this system, simultaneously describing the evolving spacetime and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-17 Mark J. Avara , Julian H. Krolik , Manuela Campanelli , Scott C. Noble , Dennis Bowen , Taeho Ryu

Black hole (BH) accretion flows and jets are dynamic hot relativistic magnetized plasma flows whose radiative opacity can significantly affect flow structure and behavior. We describe a numerical scheme, tests, and an astrophysically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jonathan C. McKinney , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

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

It has long been thought that black hole accretion flows are driven by magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, and there are now many general relativistic global simulations illustrating the dynamics of this process. However, many challenges…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-11 Chris Nagele , Julian H. Krolik , Rongrong Liu , Brooks E. Kinch , Jeremy D. Schnittman

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

We present a new approach for stably evolving general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations in regions where the magnetization $\sigma=b^2/\rho c^2$ becomes large. GRMHD codes typically struggle to evolve plasma above…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-16 Andrew Chael

We present a set of simulations of relativistic jets from accretion disk initial setup with a new code in Fortran 90 to get numerical solutions of a system of General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) partial differential equations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-08 R. O. Garcia , S. R. Oliveira

We present three-dimensional (3-D) magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of radiatively inefficient accretion flow around black holes. General relativistic effects are simulated by using the pseudo-Newtonian potential. We start…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yoshiaki Kato , Shin Mineshige , Kazunari Shibata

We present axisymmetric two-temperature general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamic (GRRMHD) simulations of the inner region of the accretion flow onto the supermassive black hole M87. We address uncertainties from previous modeling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-22 Benjamin R. Ryan , Sean M. Ressler , Joshua C. Dolence , Charles F. Gammie , Eliot Quataert

In the present paper, we study the thermal properties of the geometrically thin accretion disks surrounding the null naked singularity (NNS) and the first type of Joshi-Malafarina-Narayan (JMN1) spacetimes and compare the results with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Divya Tahelyani , Ashok B. Joshi , Dipanjan Dey , Pankaj S. Joshi

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