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Spinning supermassive black holes (BHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGN) magnetically launch relativistic collimated outflows, or jets. Without angular momentum supply, such jets are thought to perish within $3$ orders of magnitude in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-19 Aretaios Lalakos , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Omer Bromberg , Ore Gottlieb , Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , Matthew Liska , Haocheng Zhang

The large-scale magnetic field threading an accretion disk plays an important role in launching jets/outflows. The field may probably be advected inwards by the plasma in the accretion disk from the ambient environment (interstellar medium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Jiawen Li , Xinwu Cao

A hyperaccretion disk formed around a stellar mass black hole is a plausible model for the central engine that powers gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). If the central black hole rotates and a poloidal magnetic field threads its horizon, a powerful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Norita Kawanaka , Tsvi Piran , Julian H. Krolik

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

Centrifugal pressure of matter spiralling onto black holes, have long been known to produce standing or oscillating shocks. The post-shock disc puffs up in the form of a torus, which intercepts soft photons from the outer Keplerian disc and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Indranil Chattopadhyay

Black hole (BH) accretion flows and jets are qualitatively affected by the presence of ordered magnetic fields. We study fully three-dimensional global general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of radially extended and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Jonathan C. McKinney , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Roger D. Blandford

Prevalent around luminous accreting black holes, thin discs are challenging to resolve in numerical simulations. When the disc and black hole angular momentum vectors are misaligned, the challenge becomes extreme, requiring adaptive meshes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-11 M. Liska , A. Tchekhovskoy , A. Ingram , M. van der Klis

The dynamics and structure of accretion disks, which accumulate the vertical magnetic field in the centers, are investigated using two- and three-dimensional MHD simulations. The central field can be built up to the equipartition level and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Igor V. Igumenshchev

We present the results of 2.5-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the magnetic interaction between a weakly magnetized neutron star and its accretion disk. General relativistic effects are simulated by using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yoshiaki Kato , Mitsuru Hayashi , Ryoji Matsumoto

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

Relativistic jets and disc-winds are typically observed in BH-XRBs and AGNs. However, many physical details of jet launching and the driving of disc winds from the underlying accretion disc are still not fully understood. In this study, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Indu K. Dihingia , Bhargav Vaidya , Christian Fendt

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

The mechanism by which outflows and plausible jets are driven from black hole systems, still remains observationally elusive. Notwithstanding, several observational evidences and deeper theoretical insights reveal that accretion and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Debbijoy Bhattacharya , Shubhrangshu Ghosh , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We examine the possibility that the relativistic jets observed in many active galactic nuclei may be powered by the Fermi acceleration of protons in a tenuous corona above a two-temperature accretion disk. In this picture the acceleration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Prasad Subramanian , Peter A. Becker , Demosthenes Kazanas

We propose a unified model for jet formation applicable to active galactic nuclei, young stellar objects, and X-ray binaries. In this model, the binding energy released from the accretion disk is primarily stored as turbulence rather than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Chun Xu

In this paper, we present the stationary axisymmetric configuration of a resistive magnetised thick accretion disc in the vicinity of external gravity and intrinsic dipolar magnetic field of a slowly rotating black hole. The plasma is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Mahboobeh Shaghaghian

We analyze three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of a nonradiative accretion flow around a black hole using a pseudo-Newtonian potential. The flow originates from a torus initially centered at 100 gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 John F. Hawley , Steven A. Balbus

(Abriged) We present a comprehensive set of axisymmetric, time-dependent simulations of jets from Keplerian disks whose mass loading as a function of disk radius is systematically changed. For a reasonable model for the density structure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ralph E. Pudritz , Conrad Rogers , Rachid Ouyed

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

Magnetized accretion onto spinning black holes can accumulate a large magnetic flux across the event horizon and launch a pair of relativistic jets via the Blandford-Znajek mechanism. In the magnetically saturated (arrested) state, excess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-30 Krzysztof Nalewajko , Mateusz Kapusta , Bart Ripperda , Alexander A. Philippov