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We investigate the transition of a radiatively inefficient phase of a viscous two temperature accreting flow to a cooling dominated phase and vice versa around black holes. Based on a global sub-Keplerian accretion disc model in steady…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Monika Sinha , S. R. Rajesh , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

The interplay between supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their environments is believed to command an essential role in galaxy evolution. The majority of these SMBHs are in the radiative inefficient accretion phase where this interplay…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-30 Shawn R. Roberts , Yan-Fei Jiang , Q. Daniel Wang , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

The dynamics of accretion onto a schwarzschild black hole is studied using Paczynski-Wiita pseudo newtonian potential. Steady state solution of the flow equations is obtained using thin disc approximation, including the effect of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sivakumar G. Manickam , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

Astronomers have discovered many potential black holes in X-ray binaries and galactic nuclei. These black holes are usually identified by the fact that they are too massive to be neutron stars. Until recently, however, there was no…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kristen Menou , Eliot Quataert , Ramesh Narayan

Astronomers have discovered many potential black holes in X-ray binaries and galactic nuclei. These black holes are usually identified by the fact that they are too massive to be neutron stars. Until recently, however, there was no…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Menou , E. Quataert , R. Narayan

Several physical and astrophysical problems related to accretion onto black holes and neutron stars are shortly reviewed. I discuss the observed differences between these two types of compact objects in quiescent Soft X-ray Transients. Then…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jean-Pierre Lasota

The scale invariance of accretion processes (SIAP) is crucial for understanding the physical processes of black hole accretion systems at different scales. When applying this rule to high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HFQPOs),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-06 Haoyang Zhang , Lingwei Meng , Li Zhang , Benzhong Dai

We study the observational signatures of magnetically arrested black hole accretion with non-rotating inflow onto a rotating black hole; we consider a range of angles between the black hole spin and the initial magnetic field orientation.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 He Jia , Christopher J. White , Eliot Quataert , Sean M. Ressler

Explaining variability observed in the accretion flows of black hole X-ray binary systems remains challenging, especially concerning timescales less than, or comparable to, the viscous timescale but much larger than the inner orbital period…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-26 Hal J. Cambier , David M. Smith

The evaporation of black holes raises a number of conceptual issues, most of them related to the final stages of evaporation, where the interplay between the central singularity and Hawking radiation cannot be ignored. Regular models of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-16 Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Francesco Di Filippo , Stefano Liberati , Costantino Pacilio , Matt Visser

Most black holes (BHs) formed in collapsing stars have low spin, though some are expected to acquire a magnetic accretion disk during the collapse. While such BH disks can launch magnetically driven winds, their physics and observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-11 Justin Bopp , Ore Gottlieb

We present a critical analysis of the usual interpretation of the multicolour disc model parameters for black hole candidates in terms of the inner radius and temperature of the accretion disc. Using a self-consistent model for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Merloni , A. C. Fabian , R. R. Ross

The transonic phenomenon of black hole accretion and the existence of the photon sphere are the characteristics of strong gravitational fields near a black hole horizon. In this work, we study spherical accretion flow onto a general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-01 Sen Yang , Cheng Liu , Tao Zhu , Li Zhao , Qiang Wu , Ke Yang , Mubasher Jamil

Context. The Bondi spherical accretion solution has been used to model accretion onto compact objects in a variety of situations, from interpretation of observations to subgrid models in cosmological simulations. Aims. We aim to investigate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-03 Razieh Ranjbar , Héctor R. Olivares-Sánchez

Horizon-scale observations from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have enabled precision study of supermassive black hole accretion. Contemporary accretion modeling often treats the inflowing plasma as a single, thermal fluid, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-27 George N. Wong , Lev Arzamasskiy

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) self-regulate galaxies, groups, and clusters, yet the pathway transporting gas from halo scales to sub-pc radii remains debated. In hot stratified atmospheres, subsonic turbulence can trigger nonlinear…

The present paper is aimed to study thermodynamical properties of phase transition for regular charged black holes. In this context, we have considered two different forms of black hole metrics supplemented with exponential and logistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-30 Wajiha Javed , Z. Yousaf , Zunaira Akhtar

Recent results of the event horizon-scale images of M87* and Sagittarius A* from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration show that strong magnetic fields are likely present around the central black holes (BHs) in these sources.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Sera Markoff , Ramesh Narayan

Observations and numerical simulations have shown that outflows generally exist in the accretion process. We revisit the thermal equilibrium solutions of black hole accretion flows by including the role of outflows. Our study focuses on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 Wen-Biao Wu , Wei-Min Gu , Mouyuan Sun

The three X-ray states of active accretion in black-hole binaries have been re-defined to focus attention on different physical elements that may contribute radiation: the accretion disk, a jet, and a compact and radio-quiet corona.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. A. Remillard