Athena ++ Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics Simulation (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Athena ++ Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics Simulation

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Astrophysicist James Stone at the Institute for Advanced Study is seeking to understand central problems in astrophysics — how matter accretes and how stars form in the turbulent interstellar medium. Understanding accretion disks is crucial for decoding the universe’s most spectacular events. Image shows logarithmic fluid frame mass density gas temperature in a poloidal slice through a tilted (45◦), sub-Eddington accretion disk about an a = 15/16 black hole.

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DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2409.16053

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