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Physics Colloquium – Chris Fragile
January 30 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
What Are We Learning About Super-Eddington Accretion Disks From Simulations?
Professor Chris Fragile
Department of Physics & Astronomy, College of Charleston
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).
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.
