Frontiers in Black Hole Accretion

Chris White (CCA)

October 16, 2023

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Abstract: Modeling of accreting black hole systems has advanced dramatically over the past few years, driven by access to better computing resources and the need to match new observations. I will discuss three aspects of this advancement: the impact of the angular momentum of the infalling plasma being misaligned with the black hole spin, the difficulty of accounting for the peculiarities of accretion in the galactic center, and why and how we are moving toward high accretion rates with a new general-relativistic radiation transfer scheme.