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Type-C QPOs in X-ray binaries have been often interpreted as a consequence of relativistic Lense-Thirring precession around a spinning black hole and they potentially offer a way to measure black hole spins and masses. The connection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-25 S. E. Motta , A. Franchini , G. Lodato , G. Mastroserio

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

It is likely that the disk of a tidal disruption event (TDE) is misaligned with respect to the equatorial plane of the spinning supermassive black hole (SMBH), since the initial stellar orbit before disruption is most likely has an inclined…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Hao-Yu Yuan , Hong-Zhou Wu , Wei-Hua Lei

We show that in realistic cases of accretion in active galactic nuclei or stellar-mass X-ray binaries, the Lense-Thirring effect breaks the central regions of tilted accretion discs around spinning black holes into a set of distinct planes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Chris Nixon , Andrew King , Daniel Price , Juhan Frank

Astrophysical evidence has hinted at the existence of a nonzero NUT charge, which breaks the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry of spacetime and induces novel features in geodesics. In this work, we investigate the Lense-Thirring precession of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-15 Xiang-Cheng Meng , Shan-Ping Wu , Shao-Wen Wei

We have considered precession in accretion disks in which a second moment of inertia relative to an axis perpendicular to the axis of rotation may be very important. This formalism, that takes into account the precession contribution to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-17 Cesar Meirelles Filho

VLBI observations have shown that the parsec-jet of 3C 345 is formed by several components, ejected from the core with superluminal velocities and travelling along bent trajectories on the plane of the sky. We interpret the differences in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Anderson Caproni , Zulema Abraham

We posit that accreting compact objects, including stellar mass black holes and neutron stars as well as supermassive black holes, may undergo extended periods of accretion during which the angular momentum of the disk at large scales is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 P. Chris Fragile , Peter Anninos , Omer M. Blaes , Jay D. Salmonson

In this Paper we consider twisted accretion disks in supermassive binary black hole by analytical and numerical means. It is assumed that the disk orbiting around the more massive rotating component and that the disk rings are inclined with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Viacheslav V. Zhuravlev , Pavel B. Ivanov

An estimate of the jet inclination angle relative to the accreting black hole's spin can be useful to probe the jet triggering mechanism and the disc--jet coupling. A Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) of a star by a supermassive spinning black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Sudip Chakraborty , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Chandrachur Chakraborty , A. R. Rao

During a stellar tidal disruption event (TDE), an accretion disk forms as stellar debris returns to the disruption site and circularizes. Rather than being confined within the circularizing radius, the disk can spread to larger radii to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-11 Rong-Feng Shen , Christopher D. Matzner

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…

Current theoretical models for the outflows/jets from AGN, X-ray binaries and young stellar objects involve large-scale magnetic fields threading an underlying accretion disk. We suggest that such a disk is subjected to warping instability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dong Lai

We study the precession of accretion disks in the context of gamma-ray burst inner engines. With an accretion disk model that allows for neutrino cooling, we evaluate the possible periods of disk precession and nutation due to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matias M. Reynoso , Gustavo E. Romero , Oscar A. Sampayo

Accretion discs and black holes (BHs) have angular momenta that are generally misaligned with respect to each other, which can lead to warps in the discs and bends in any jets produced. We consider a disc that is misaligned at large radii…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-15 Peter Polko , Jonathan C. McKinney

Luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN) and X-Ray binaries (XRBs) often contain geometrically thin, radiatively cooled accretion discs. According to theory, these are -- in many cases -- initially highly misaligned with the black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-11 M. Liska , C. Hesp , A. Tchekhovskoy , A. Ingram , M. van der Klis , S. B. Markoff , M. Van Moer

In this paper, we investigate the frame-dragging effect on an accretion disk and test gyroscope orbiting around a rotating regular black hole with a Minkowski core. Firstly, we perturb a bound timelike circular orbit around the black hole,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-03 Meng-He Wu , Hong Guo , Xiao-Mei Kuang

We investigate the frame-dragging effect of the hairy Kerr spacetimes on the spin of a test gyro and accretion disk. Firstly, we analyze Lense-Thirring (LT) precession frequency, geodetic precession frequency, and the general spin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Meng-He Wu , Hong Guo , Xiao-Mei Kuang

Recently, Cui et al. [Nature \textbf{621}, 711 (2023)] reported that the jet nozzle of M87* exhibits a precession with a period of approximately 11 years. This finding strongly suggests that the supermassive black hole in the core of M87…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-03 Shao-Wen Wei , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Yu-Peng Zhang , Yu-Xiao Liu

BL Lacertae is the prototype of the BL Lac class of active galactic nuclei, exhibiting intensive activity on parsec (pc) scales, such as intense core variability and multiple ejections of jet components. In particular, in previous works the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Anderson Caproni , Zulema Abraham , Hektor Monteiro