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The standard general relativistic model of a razor-thin accretion disk around a black hole, developed by Novikov & Thorne (NT) in 1973, assumes the shear stress vanishes at the radius of the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) and that,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Robert F. Penna , Jonathan C. McKinney , Ramesh Narayan , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Rebecca Shafee , Jeffrey E. McClintock

X-ray reflection spectroscopy has evolved as one of the leading methods to measure black hole spins. However, the question is whether its measurements are subjected to systematic biases, especially considering the possible discrepancy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-23 Swarnim Shashank , Askar B. Abdikamalov , Honghui Liu , Abdurakhmon Nosirov , Cosimo Bambi , Indu K. Dihingia , Yosuke Mizuno

A new general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamical code KORAL, is described, which employs the M1 scheme to close the radiation moment equations. The code has been successfully verified against a number of tests. Axisymmetric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 A. Sadowski , R. Narayan , J. C. McKinney , A. Tchekhovskoy

We present a comprehensive analysis of four near-Eddington black hole accretion models computed by solving the GRMHD equations with full radiation transport. This study focuses on the dynamical effects of magnetic field topology and black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-09 Lizhong Zhang , James M. Stone , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang , Patrick D. Mullen , Christopher J. White

We present a set of six general relativistic, multi-frequency, radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of thin accretion disks with different target mass accretion rates around black holes with spins ranging from non-rotating to rapidly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-02 P. Chris Fragile , Peter Anninos , Nathaniel Roth , Bhupendra Mishra

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 study time evolution of sub-Keplerian transonic accretion flows onto black holes using a general relativistic numerical simulation code. We perform simulations in Schwarzschild spacetime. We first compare one-dimensional simulation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Jinho Kim , Sudip K. Garain , Dinshaw S. Balsara , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

We perform 2D and 3D numerical simulations of an accretion disc in a close binary system using the Simplified Flux vector Splitting (SFS) finite volume method. In our calculations, gas is assumed to be the ideal one, and we calculate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Makoto Makita , Kenji Miyawaki , Takuya Matsuda

We investigate relativistic low angular momentum accretion of inviscid perfect fluid onto a Schwarzschild black hole. The simulations are performed with a general-relativistic, high-resolution (second-order), shock-capturing, hydrodynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-13 Patryk Mach , Michał Piróg , José A. Font

The stationary, spherically symmetric accretion of dark energy onto a Schwarzschild black hole is considered in terms of relativistic hydrodynamics. The approximation of an ideal fluid is used to model the dark energy. General expressions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 E. Babichev , V. Dokuchaev , Yu. Eroshenko

The Schwarzschild black hole in the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) halo is studied, and the radiation laws of the thin accretion disk near the black hole are discussed and summarized. The orbits of light around the black hole are also calculated.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-10 Shi-Jie Ma , Tian-Chi Ma , Jian-Bo Deng , Xian-Ru Hu

In this paper, the numerical investigation of a Bondi-Hoyle accretion around a non-rotating black hole in a novel four dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity is investigated by solving the general relativistic hydrodynamical equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-24 Orhan Donmez

We discuss a special case of formation of axisymmetric shocks in the accretion flow of ideal gas onto a Schwarzschild black hole: when the total energy of the flow is negative. The result of our analysis enlarges the parameter space for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Molteni , G. Gerardi , V. Teresi

The 3+1 GRMHD equations for Schwarzschild spacetime in Rindler coordinates with isothermal state of plasma are formulated. We consider the cases of non-rotating and rotating backgrounds with non-magnetized and magnetized plasmas. For these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Sharif , Umber Sheikh

We present time-dependent solutions of thin, supersonic accretion flows near a black hole and compare them with analytical solutions. Such flows of inviscid, adiabatic gas are characterized by the specific angular momentum and the specific…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dongsu Ryu , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

This paper presents a continuation of our efforts to numerically study accretion disks that are misaligned (tilted) with respect to the rotation axis of a Kerr black hole. Here we present results of a global numerical simulation which fully…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Chris Fragile , Omer M. Blaes , Peter Anninos , Jay D. Salmonson

We study accretion rates during the gravitational wave-driven merger of a binary supermassive black hole embedded in an accretion disc, formed by gas driven to the centre of the galaxy. We use 3D simulations performed with PHANTOM, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-03 Alice Cerioli , Giuseppe Lodato , Daniel J. Price

We study the accretion of a Schwarzschild black hole due to spherically symmetric perturbations sourced by a minimally coupled massless scalar field. The backreaction of the black hole to low-frequency ingoing scalar waves is computed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-24 Marco de Cesare , Roberto Oliveri

The study of a disturbed accretion disk holds great significance in the realm of astrophysics, as such events play a crucial role in revealing the nature of disk structure, the release of energy, and the generation of shock waves.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-04 Orhan Donmez

We explore isothermal shock formation in non-equatorial, adiabatic accretion flows onto a rotating black hole, with possible application to some active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The isothermal shock jump conditions as well as the regularity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Keigo Fukumura , Sachiko Tsuruta