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David Barrero-González

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arXiv2026

Relativistic Spherical Accretion in Nonrotating Black Hole Spacetimes: Astrophysical Implications

We present a systematic analysis of spherically symmetric accretion flows onto thirteen non-rotating black hole spacetimes, including charged and regular black holes, scalar and dilaton fields, dark energy, cosmological constants, modified gravity, and parametrized metrics. We generalize the Michel solution to arbitrary diagonal spacetimes and investigate the density, temperature, velocity, Mach number, mass accretion rate, and bremsstrahlung luminosity equilibrium profiles. Using the Schwarzschild solution as a reference, we find significant deviations in the accretion flow, with cosmological-constant and dark-energy models strongly suppressing accretion, while regular and Yukawa-like spacetimes generally enhance it. We provide fitting formulas for the accretion rates and luminosities as functions of the spacetime parameters. We then explore two astrophysical applications: accretion onto supermassive black holes, such as Sgr A* and M87*, and the inferred progenitor masses of the intermediate-mass black holes associated with the GW190521 gravitational wave event. We find that observational uncertainties may allow us to probe signatures of deviations from the Schwarzschild spacetime.

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arXiv2026

Nonthermal hotspot orbiting the supermassive black hole Sgr A*

Recent millimeter wavelength observations at 230 GHz by the Event Horizon Telescope have resolved the innermost structure of the Galactic Center, Sgr A*, revealing a ring-like structure consistent with synchrotron emission from a magnetized torus surrounding a supermassive black hole. These observations reveal two key features: three prominent hotspots near the photon ring and low light-curve variability, with a modulation index of $\barσ/\barμ \lesssim 0.1$. State-of-the-art general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic and radiative transfer simulations cannot simultaneously reproduce the three hotspots and low light-curve variability observed in Sgr A*. We propose that an orbiting hot blob, formed in the accretion disk, could account for hotspots. We systematically explore its physical properties, including size, emission amplitude, orbital radius, eccentricity, velocity, and orbital plane orientation. The results -- applying two observational constraints--show that the preferred model corresponds to a black hole with dimensionless spin $a_{\star}=0.5$, a magnetically arrested disk configuration for the magnetic field, and the presence of a hotspot with size $σ_{\rm hs}=2\,M$ and intensity amplitude $A=10$, orbiting circularly at $r_{\rm orb}=6 M$ with Keplerian velocity in the black holes equatorial plane, and an inclination view angle of $i^\circ=20$.

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