A Monte Carlo model of a Kerr black hole corona shows that photon collisions create a dense electron-positron pair cloud concentrated near the black hole, yielding X-ray temperatures, Compton parameters, and 4-10% polarization consistent with binary black hole observations.
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Pair-Rich Corona of an Accreting Kerr Black Hole
A Monte Carlo model of a Kerr black hole corona shows that photon collisions create a dense electron-positron pair cloud concentrated near the black hole, yielding X-ray temperatures, Compton parameters, and 4-10% polarization consistent with binary black hole observations.
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$\texttt{GPUmonty}$: A GPU-accelerated relativistic Monte Carlo radiative transfer code
GPUmonty delivers a 12x speedup over grmonty by parallelizing superphoton operations on GPUs while keeping errors below 1% in tests against analytic solutions and prior codes.