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We present an analytic description of turbulent, MHD disk accretion around black holes that specifically addresses the relationship between radial and vertical, transport, thereby complementing and extending numerical simulations. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Zdenka Kuncic , Geoffrey V. Bicknell

The first spherical accretion model was developed 55 years ago, but the theory is yet far from being complete. The real accretion flow was found to be time-dependent and turbulent. This paper presents the minimal MHD spherical accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Roman V. Shcherbakov

The study of Magnetically Arrested Disks (MAD) attract strong interest in recent years, as these disk configurations were found to generate strong jets as observed in many accreting systems. Here, we present the results of 14 general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 G. -Q. Zhang , D. Bégué , A. Pe'er , B. -B. Zhang

We develop and discuss a model formalism to study the properties of mass outflows that are emerged out from a relativistic, magnetized, viscous, advective accretion flow around a rotating black hole. In doing so, we consider the toroidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-08 Camelia Jana , Santabrata Das

In certain scenarios, the accreted angular momentum of plasma onto a black hole could be low; however, how the accretion dynamics depend on the angular momentum content of the plasma is still not fully understood. We present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-23 Ho-Sang Chan , Prasun Dhang , Jason Dexter , Mitchell C. Begelman

We perform the first suite of fully general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of spinning massive black hole binary mergers. We consider binary black holes with spins of different magnitudes aligned to the orbital angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-04 Federico Cattorini , Bruno Giacomazzo , Francesco Haardt , Monica Colpi

Previous works show strong winds exist in hot accretion flows around black holes. Those works focus only on the region close to the black hole thus it is unknown whether or where the wind production stops at large radii. In this paper, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 De-Fu Bu , Feng Yuan , Zhao-Ming Gan , Xiao-hong Yang

Numerical simulations of MHD accretion flows in the vicinity of a supermasssive black hole provide important insights to the problem of why and how systems -- such as the Galactic Center -- are underluminous and variable. To access…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Monika Moscibrodzka , Daniel Proga , Bozena Czerny , Aneta Siemiginowska

We study energy flows in geometrically thick accretion discs, both optically thick and thin, using general relativistic, three-dimensional simulations of black hole accretion flows. We find that for non-rotating black holes the efficiency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-20 Aleksander Sadowski , Jean-Pierre Lasota , Marek A. Abramowicz , Ramesh Narayan

We investigate the dynamical behaviour of a magnetized, dissipative, accretion flow around a rapidly rotating black hole. We solve the magnetohydrodynamic equations and calculate the transonic accretion solutions which may contain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Biplob Sarkar , Anjali Rao

Recent numerical cosmological radiation-magnetohydrodynamic-thermochemical-star formation simulations have resolved the formation of quasar accretion disks with Eddington or super-Eddington accretion rates onto supermassive black holes…

We present 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of the accretion flow surrounding Sagittarius A* that are initialized using larger-scale MHD simulations of the $\sim$ 30 Wolf--Rayet (WR) stellar winds in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 Sean M. Ressler , Christopher J. White , Eliot Quataert , James M. Stone

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

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

We study the accretion of collisionless plasma onto a rotating black hole from first principles using axisymmetric general-relativistic particle-in-cell simulations. We carry out a side-by-side comparison of these results to analogous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Alisa Galishnikova , Alexander Philippov , Eliot Quataert , Fabio Bacchini , Kyle Parfrey , Bart Ripperda

It is widely accepted that quasars and other active galactic nuclei (AGN) are powered by accretion of matter onto a central supermassive black hole. While numerical simulations have demonstrated the importance of magnetic fields in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter B. Dobbie , Zdenka Kuncic , Geoffrey V. Bicknell , Raquel Salmeron

We present numerical simulations of the axisymmetric accretion of a massive magnetized plasma torus on a rotating black hole. We use a realistic equation of state, which takes into account neutrino cooling and energy loss due to nucleus…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Maxim V. Barkov , Anton N. Baushev

Significant nucleosynthesis is possible in the centrifugal pressure-supported dense and hot region of the accretion flows which deviate from Keplerian disks around black holes. We compute composition changes and energy generations due to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

We report on the first phase of our study of slightly rotating accretion flows onto black holes. We consider inviscid accretion flows with a spherically symmetric density distribution at the outer boundary, but with spherical symmetry…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Proga , M. C. Begelman

A toy model of a disk undergoing steady state accretion onto a black hole is presented. The disk is in a hydrostatic equilibrium for all radii r > r_{in}, with the inner disk radius located between the marginally stable and marginally bound…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bohdan Paczynski