2025ApJ...995..122C -
Astrophys. J., 995, 122 (2025/December-2)
Bridging Scales in Black Hole Accretion and Feedback: Relativistic Jet Linking the Horizon to the Host Galaxy.
CHO H., PRATHER B.S., NARAYAN R., SU K.-Y. and NATARAJAN P.
Abstract (from CDS):
Simulating black hole (BH) accretion and feedback from the BH horizon to galactic scales is extremely challenging, as it involves a vast range of scales. Recently, our multizone method has successfully achieved global dynamical steady states of hot accretion flows in 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations by tracking the bidirectional interaction between a nonspinning BH and its host galaxy. In this paper, we present technical improvements to the method and apply it to spin a* = 0.9 BHs, which power relativistic jets. We first test the new multizone setup with a smaller Bondi radius, RB ≈ 400 rg, where rg is the gravitational radius. The strongly magnetized accretion launches a relativistic jet with an intermediate feedback efficiency η ∼ 30%, in between that of a prograde (η ∼ 100%) and retrograde (η ∼ 10%) torus. Interestingly, both prograde and retrograde simulations also eventually converge to the same intermediate efficiency when evolved long enough, as accumulated magnetic fields remove gas rotation. We then extend strongly magnetized simulations to larger Bondi radii, RB ≈ 2 × 103, 2 × 104, 2 × 105rg. We find that the BH accretion rate $\dot{M}$ is suppressed with respect to the Bondi rate ${\dot{M}}_{{\rm{B}}}$ as $\dot{M}/{\dot{M}}_{{\rm{B}}}\propto {R}_{{\rm{B}}}^{-1/2}$. However, despite some variability, the time-averaged feedback efficiency remains at η ∼ 30%, independent of RB. This suggests that BH feedback efficiency in hot accretion flows is mainly governed by the BH spin (a*) rather than by the galactic properties (RB). From these first-principles simulations, we provide a feedback subgrid prescription for cosmological simulations: ${\dot{E}}_{\mathrm{fb}}=2\times 1{0}^{-3}{[{R}_{{\rm{B}}}/(2\times 1{0}^{5}\,{r}_{g})]}^{-1/2}{\dot{M}}_{{\rm{B}}}{c}^{2}$ for BH spin a* = 0.9.
Abstract Copyright:
© 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
Journal keyword(s):
Accretion - Active galactic nuclei - Bondi accretion - Kerr black holes - Relativistic jets - Supermassive black holes - Hydrodynamical simulations
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