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Observations of accreting black holes often provoke suggestions that their jets precess. The precession is usually supposed to result from a combination of the Lense-Thirring effect and accretion disc viscosity. We show that this is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Chris Nixon , Andrew King

It has been observed that many relativistic jets display a kind of cork-screw-like precession. Numerical simulations has suggested that such kind of precession may originate from the precession of the disk. In this work, we introduce an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-08 Ye Shen , Bin Chen

Observational constraints on the configuration of the black hole (BH)-accretion disk-jet system are crucial to understanding BH spin, accretion disk physics, and jet formation. The recently reported variation in the M87 jet position angle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 Yuzhu Cui , Weikang Lin

Observations of accreting black hole (BH) systems, such as microquasars and supermassive black holes, often reveal a precessing jet with changing directions, indicating a misaligned accretion flow relative to the BH spin. The precession is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-30 Hong-Xuan Jiang , Yosuke Mizuno , Dong Lai , Indu K. Dihingia , Christian M. Fromm

We show that the observational data of extragalactic radio sources tend to support the theoretical relationship between the jet precession period and the optical luminosity of the sources, as predicted by the model in which an accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ju-Fu Lu , Bo-Yan Zhou

Gas falling into a black hole (BH) from large distances is unaware of BH spin direction, and misalignment between the accretion disc and BH spin is expected to be common. However, the physics of tilted discs (e.g., angular momentum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-06 Matthew Liska , Casper Hesp , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Adam Ingram , Michiel van der Klis , Sera Markoff

We analytically and numerically study the hydrodynamic propagation of a precessing jet in the context of tidal disruption events (TDEs) where the star's angular momentum is misaligned with the black hole spin. We assume that a geometrically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-25 Wenbin Lu , Tatsuya Matsumoto , Christopher D. Matzner

Supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) is expected with the hierarchical galaxy formation model. Currently, physics processes dominating the evolution of a SMBHB are unclear. An interesting question is whether we could observationally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. K. Liu , X. Chen

We show that it is possible to explain the physical origin of jet precession in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) through the misalignment between the rotation axes of the accretion disk and of the Kerr black hole. We apply this scenario to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-24 Anderson Caproni , Herman J. Mosquera Cuesta , Zulema Abraham

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect gravitational-wave (GW) signals from merging supermassive black holes (BHs) with masses below $10^7$~M$_{\odot}$. It is thus of paramount importance to understand the orbital…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-05 Fazeel M. Khan , Pedro R. Capelo , Lucio Mayer , Peter Berczik

The precession phenomenon of the jet in a gamma-ray burst (GRB) is a key probe of the physics of the central engine. Previous studies generally assumed a fixed precession period when analysing the temporal profiles in GRBs; however, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-30 Yun-Peng Li , Da-Bin Lin , Guo-Yu Li , En-Wei Liang

In the course of its evolution, a black hole (BH) accretes gas from a wide range of directions. Given a random accretion event, the typical angular momentum of an accretion disc would be tilted by $\sim$60$^\circ$ relative to the BH spin.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-17 M. Liska , C. Hesp , A. Tchekhovskoy , A. Ingram , M. van der Klis , S. B. Markoff

Magnetic fields regulate black hole (BH) accretion, governing both inflow and outflow dynamics. When a BH accumulates substantial vertical magnetic flux, it enters the magnetically arrested disk (MAD) state, where dynamically important…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-18 Koushik Chatterjee , Nicholas Kaaz , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Sera Markoff

Powerful relativistic jets are one of the main ways in which accreting black holes provide kinetic feedback to their surroundings. Jets launched from or redirected by the accretion flow that powers them should be affected by the dynamics of…

When a star is tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole (SMBH), the streams of liberated gas form an accretion disk after their return to pericenter. We demonstrate that Lense-Thirring precession in the spacetime around a rotating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Nicholas Stone , Abraham Loeb

We present various instability mechanisms in the accreting black hole systems which might indicate at the connection between the accretion disk and jet. The jets observed in microquasars can have a persistent or blobby morphology.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Agnieszka Janiuk , Bozena Czerny , Monika Moscibrodzka , Aneta Siemiginowska

The physical nature of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to involve an ultra-relativistic jet. The observed complex structure of light curves motivate the idea of jet precession. In this work, we study the gravitational waves of jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Mou-Yuan Sun , Tong Liu , Wei-Min Gu , Ju-Fu Lu

A model of jet precession driven by a neutrino-cooled disc around a spinning black hole is present in order to explain the temporal structure and spectral evolution of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The differential rotation of the outer part of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Tong Liu , En-Wei Liang , Wei-Min Gu , Xiao-Hong Zhao , Zi-Gao Dai , Ju-Fu Lu

We consider several protostellar systems where either a precessing jet or at least two misaligned jets have been observed. We assume that the precession of jets is caused by tidal interactions in noncoplanar binary systems. For Cep E, V1331…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Terquem , J. Eisloffel , J. Papaloizou , R. Nelson

The observable characteristics of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) embedded in the accretion disk of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are mainly determined by the jet propagation within the disk. In the massive collapsar scenario, we consider that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-20 Yun-Feng Wei , Tong Liu , Bao-Quan Huang
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