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.
Bogumił Pilecki (CAMK, Warsaw)
Samik Mitra (Astrophysics and Relativity Group International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru, India)
Andrzej Kruszewicz (Warsaw Zoological Garden)
Rameshan Thimmappa
