Magnetized accretion onto and feedback from supermassive black holes in elliptical galaxies

M Guo, JM Stone, E Quataert… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the fueling of supermassive black
holes in elliptical galaxies from a turbulent cooling medium on galactic scales, taking M87 …

Optical emission model for Binary Black Hole merger remnants travelling through discs of Active Galactic Nuclei

JC Rodríguez-Ramírez, CR Bom… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been proposed as plausible sites for hosting a sizable
fraction of the binary black hole (BBH) mergers measured through gravitational waves …

Electromagnetic Counterparts Powered by Kicked Remnants of Black Hole Binary Mergers in AGN Disks

K Chen, ZG Dai - The Astrophysical Journal, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The disk of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) is widely regarded as a prominent formation
channel of binary black hole (BBH) mergers that can be detected through gravitational …

Primordial black holes captured by neutron stars: Relativistic point-mass treatment

TW Baumgarte, SL Shapiro - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Primordial black holes (PBHs), if they exist, may collide with and be captured by neutron
stars. We adopt a relativistic point-mass approximation to study this capture, the subsequent …

Bridging scales in black hole accretion and feedback: magnetized bondi accretion in 3D GRMHD

H Cho, BS Prather, R Narayan… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Fueling and feedback couple supermassive black holes (SMBHs) to their host galaxies
across many orders of magnitude in spatial and temporal scales, making this problem …

Black Hole–Disk Interactions in Magnetically Arrested Active Galactic Nuclei: General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations Using a Time-dependent, Binary …

SM Ressler, L Combi, X Li, B Ripperda… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Perturber objects interacting with supermassive black hole accretion disks are often invoked
to explain observed quasiperiodic behavior in active galactic nuclei (AGN). We present …

Multizone Modeling of Black Hole Accretion and Feedback in 3D GRMHD: Bridging Vast Spatial and Temporal Scales

H Cho, BS Prather, KY Su, R Narayan… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Simulating accretion and feedback from the horizon scale of supermassive black holes
(SMBHs) out to galactic scales is challenging because of the vast range of scales involved …

Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton accretion onto a rotating black hole with ultralight scalar hair

A Cruz-Osorio, L Rezzolla… - … of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a numerical study of relativistic Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton (BHL) accretion onto an
asymptotically flat black hole with synchronized hair. The hair is sourced by an ultralight …

One-dimensional General Relativistic Particle-in-cell Simulations of Stellar-mass Black Hole Magnetospheres: A Semianalytic Model of Gamma-Rays from Gaps

K Kin, S Kisaka, K Toma, SS Kimura… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In the absence of a sufficient amount of plasma injection into the black hole (BH)
magnetosphere, the force-free state of the magnetosphere cannot be maintained, leading to …

Particle acceleration with magnetic reconnection in large-scale RMHD simulations–I. Current sheet identification and characterization

M Nurisso, A Celotti, A Mignone… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a new algorithm for the identification and physical characterization of current
sheets and reconnection sites in 2D and 3D large-scale relativistic magnetohydrodynamic …