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most citedPhysics of Pair Producing Gaps in Black Hole Magnetospheres: Two Dimensional General Relativistic Particle-in-cell Simulations

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Collisionless Accretion of Finite-Angular-Momentum Plasma onto a Spinning Black Hole

John M. Mehlhaff, Alexander Y. Chen, Martin Luepker +1

In low-luminosity active galactic nuclei like M87* and Sgr A*, the accretion disk around the central supermassive black hole is tenuous and collisionless. As a result, the usual id…