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Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) images of the horizon-scale emission around the Galactic Center supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) favor accretion flow models with a jet component. However, this jet has not been conclusively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-13 Erandi Chavez , Sara Issaoun , Michael D. Johnson , Paul Tiede , Christian Fromm , Yosuke Mizuno

Measurements of stellar orbits provide compelling evidence that the compact radio source Sagittarius A* at the Galactic Centre is a black hole four million times the mass of the Sun. With the exception of modest X-ray and infrared flares,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-08-20 S. Gillessen , R. Genzel , T. K. Fritz , E. Quataert , C. Alig , A. Burkert , J. Cuadra , F. Eisenhauer , O. Pfuhl , K. Dodds-Eden , C. F. Gammie , T. Ott

The jet in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is a key ingredient in understanding the co-evolution of galaxies and their central supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Unfortunately, the mechanism of jet launching and collimation is still elusive.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-29 Su Yao , Xiaolong Yang , Minfeng Gu , Tao An , Jun Yang , Luis C. Ho , Xiang Liu , Ran Wang , Xue-Bing Wu , Weimin Yuan

Sgr A* is the unique 1 Jy flat spectrum radio point source located at the dynamical center of the Galaxy and in the very center of the central star cluster. Due to its unusual appearance it has long been speculated that this source is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Heino Falcke

We present numerical simulations of stellar wind dynamics in the central parsec of the Galactic centre, studying in particular the accretion of gas on to Sgr A*, the super-massive black hole. Unlike our previous work, here we use…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-08 Jorge Cuadra , Sergei Nayakshin , Fabrice Martins

Although it is widely accepted that most galaxies have supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at their centers^{1-3}, concrete proof has proved elusive. Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*)^4, an extremely compact radio source at the center of our Galaxy, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhi-Qiang Shen , K. Y. Lo , M. -C. Liang , Paul T. P. Ho , J. -H. Zhao

Accretion of black holes at near-Eddington or super-Eddington rates is the most powerful episode that drives black hole growth, and it may work in several types of objects. However, the physics of accretion and jet-disc coupling in such a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-23 Xiaolong Yang , Su Yao , Luigi C. Gallo , Jun Yang , Luis C. Ho , Minfeng Gu , Willem A. Baan , Jiri Svoboda , Ran Wang , Xiang Liu , Xiaoyu Hong , Xue-Bing Wu , Wei Zhao

A supermassive black hole SgrA* with the mass ~4x10^6 Msun resides at the centre of our galaxy. Building up such a massive black hole within the ~10^10 year lifetime of our galaxy would require a mean accretion rate of ~4x10^-4 Msun/yr. At…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-21 Elena M. Murchikova , E. Sterl Phinney , Anna Pancoast , Roger D. Blandford

Proposed scaling relations of a characteristic timescale in the X-ray power spectral density of galactic and supermassive black holes have been used to argue that the accretion process is the same for small and large black holes. Here, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Meyer , T. Do , A. Ghez , M. R. Morris , S. Yelda , R. Schoedel , A. Eckart

Viscous rotating accretion flows around black holes become advection-dominated when the accretion rate $\dot M$ is sufficiently low. Most of the accretion energy in such flows is stored within the gas and advected radially inward. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Ramesh Narayan , Insu Yi , Rohan Mahadevan

We calculate the radiative properties of Sagittarius A* -- spectral energy distribution, variability, and radio-infrared images -- using the first 3D, physically motivated black hole accretion models that directly evolve the electron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-22 Sean M. Ressler , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Eliot Quataert , Charles F. Gammie

Despite strong physical reasons that they should exist and decades of search, jets from the Galactic Center Black Hole, Sgr A*, have not yet been convincingly detected. Based on high-resolution Very Large Array images and ultra-deep…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Zhiyuan Li , Mark R. Morris , Frederick K. Baganoff

Sagittarius A* is a compact radio source at the Galactic center, powered by accretion of fully ionized plasmas into a supermassive black hole. However, the radio emission cannot be produced through the thermal synchrotron process by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-04-02 Kyle W. Martin , Siming Liu , Chris Fragile , Cong Yu , Chris L. Fryer

The supermassive black hole in the center of our Galaxy, Sgr A*, is unique because the angular size of the black hole is the largest in the sky thus providing detailed boundary conditions on, and much less freedom for, accretion flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Feng Yuan

Recent proper motion studies of stars at the very center of the Galaxy strongly suggest that Sagittarius (Sgr) A*, the compact nonthermal radio source at the Galactic Center, is a 2.5 million solar mass black hole. By means of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 K. Y. Lo , Z. -Q. Shen , J. -H. Zhao , P. T. P. Ho

The emission region and black hole shadow of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center, can be probed with millimeter Very Long Baseline Interferometry. Our goal is to probe the geometry of the emitting plasma…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 R. Fraga-Encinas , M. Moscibrodzka , C. Brinkerink , H. Falcke

The observed spectral energy distribution of an accreting supermassive black hole typically forms a power-law spectrum in the Near Infrared (NIR) and optical wavelengths, that may be interpreted as a signature of accelerated electrons along…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-18 Jordy Davelaar , Monika Moscibrodzka , Thomas Bronzwaer , Heino Falcke

We propose a two-temperature radial inflow-outflow model near Sgr A* with self-consistent feeding and conduction. Stellar winds from individual stars are considered to find the rates of mass injection and energy injection. These source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Roman V. Shcherbakov , Frederick K. Baganoff

Sgr A* is an ideal target to study low-luminosity accreting systems. It has been recently proposed that properties of the accretion flow around Sgr A* can be probed through its interactions with the stellar wind of nearby massive stars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-04 I. M. Christie , M. Petropoulou , P. Mimica , D. Giannios