The Colloquium takes place every Wednesday at 11:15 AM - Warsaw Copernicus Astronomical Centre online by means of Zoom platform. The Colloquium is given in English and chaired by dr Stanisław Bajtlik (bajtlik@camk.edu.pl). People from outside of the Copernicus Center are very welcome to participate. For technical detailes please contact Dr. Stanislaw Bajtlik.
Patrick C. Fragile (Charleston College)
Accretion of gas onto black holes is one of the most important processes shaping our Universe. Understanding extremely high rates of accretion (dubbed `super-Eddington') is vital to explaining the challenging observation that supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are fully formed at redshifts >7. It is also important to understanding astrophysical objects such as tidal disruption events (TDEs) and ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs). While we are able to perform observations of super-Eddington accreting systems, to understand them more fully, we must turn to numerical studies. In this talk, I will present the results of some recent super-Eddington disk simulations and discuss some of the interesting things we are learning.
Journal Club takes place on Mondays at 11:15 AM in the Seminar Room. The presentation is given in English and is chaired by Journal Club Coordinators. Anyone interested in giving a Journal Club talk is encouraged to contact the email: journalclub(@camk.edu.pl).
Mónica Taormina (NCAC, Warsaw)
based on https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05029v1 from Taormina et al. (Apr 2026).
