X-ray eruptions every 22 days from the nucleus of a nearby galaxy

M Guolo, DR Pasham, M Zajaček, ER Coughlin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Galactic nuclei showing recurrent phases of activity and quiescence have recently been
discovered. Some have recurrence times as short as a few hours to a day and are known as …

Recipes for Jet Feedback and Spin Evolution of Black Holes with Strongly Magnetized Super-Eddington Accretion Disks

A Ricarte, R Narayan, B Curd - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A spinning black hole (BH) accreting from a disk of strongly magnetized plasma via a
magnetically arrested disk is known to produce an efficient electromagnetic jet powered by …

Science with a small two-band UV-photometry mission III: Active Galactic Nuclei and nuclear transients

M Zajaček, B Czerny, VK Jaiswal, M Štolc… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
In this review, the third one in the series focused on a small two-band UV-photometry
mission, we assess possibilities for a small UV two-band photometry mission in studying …

Nozzle shocks, disk tearing, and streamers drive rapid accretion in 3D GRMHD simulations of warped thin disks

N Kaaz, MTP Liska, J Jacquemin-Ide… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The angular momentum of gas feeding a black hole (BH) may be misaligned with respect to
the BH spin, resulting in a tilted accretion disk. Rotation of the BH drags the surrounding …

Influences of tilted thin accretion disks on the observational appearance of hairy black holes in Horndeski gravity

S Hu, D Li, C Deng, X Wu, E Liang - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Research on the observational appearance of black holes, both in general relativity and
modified gravity, has been in full swing since the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration …

Magnetic Flux Plays an Important Role during a Black Hole X-Ray Binary Outburst in Radiative Two-temperature General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic …

MTP Liska, N Kaaz, K Chatterjee… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Black hole (Bh) X-ray binaries cycle through different spectral states of accretion over the
course of months to years. Although persistent changes in the Bh mass accretion rate are …

Winds and Disk Turbulence Exert Equal Torques on Thick Magnetically Arrested Disks

V Manikantan, N Kaaz, J Jacquemin-Ide… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The conventional accretion disk lore is that magnetized turbulence is the principal angular
momentum transport process that drives accretion. However, when dynamically important …

How to Turn Jets into Cylinders near Supermassive Black Holes in 3D General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations

V Rohoza, A Lalakos, M Paik… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) produce highly magnetized relativistic jets that
tend to collimate gradually as they propagate outward. However, recent radio interferometric …

A unified accretion disc model for supermassive black holes in galaxy formation simulations: method and implementation

S Koudmani, RS Somerville, D Sijacki… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
It is well established that supermassive black hole (SMBH) feedback is crucial for regulating
the evolution of massive, if not all, galaxies. However, modelling the interplay between …

Electron Heating in the Transrelativistic Perpendicular Shocks of Tilted Accretion Flows

L Sironi, A Tran - The Astrophysical Journal, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of black hole tilted disks—
where the angular momentum of the accretion flow at large distances is misaligned with …