Radiation Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation of sub-Eddington Circumbinary Disk in a 10:1 Massive Black Hole Binary
A three-dimensional radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulation models a circumbinary disk around a 10:1 massive black hole binary totaling 2×10^7 solar masses. Radiation yields a thinner, denser, less eccentric inner disk and far-UV/soft X-ray emission several orders of magnitude brighter and more variable than an equal-mass binary.