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In galactic centers, stars and binaries can be injected into low-angular-momentum orbits, resulting in close encounters with the central supermassive black hole (SMBH). Previous works have shown that under different conditions, such close…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-20 Fangyuan Yu , Dong Lai

In Paper I, we followed the evolution of binary stars as they orbited near the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the Galactic center, noting the cases in which the two stars would come close enough together to collide. In this paper we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Fabio Antonini , James C. Lombardi , David Merritt

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) that are observed in the Galactic halo, are believed to be accelerated to large velocities by a process of tidal disruption of binary stars passing close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) which resides in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-28 Ladislav Subr , Jaroslav Haas

The evolution of main sequence binaries resided in the galactic centre is influenced a lot by the central super massive black hole (SMBH). Due to this perturbation, the stars in a dense environment are likely to experience mergers or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Bin Liu , Yi-Han Wang , Ye-Fei Yuan

Hills breakup of binary systems allows massive black holes (MBH) to produce hyper-velocity stars (HVSs) and tightly bound stars. The long timescale of orbital relaxation means that binaries must spend numerous orbits around the MBH before…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-08 Howard Hao-Tse Huang , Wenbin Lu

In this paper, we investigate the link between the hypervelocity stars (HVSs) discovered in the Galactic halo and the S-stars moving in the Galactic center (GC), under the hypothesis that they are both the products of the tidal breakup of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Fupeng Zhang , Youjun Lu , Qingjuan Yu

Stars approaching supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the centers of galaxies can be torn apart by strong tidal forces. We study the physics of tidal disruption by a binary SMBH as a function of the binary mass ratio $q = M_2 / M_1$ and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Siva Darbha , Eric R. Coughlin , Daniel Kasen , Eliot Quataert

Stars that plunge into the center of a galaxy are tidally perturbed by a supermassive black hole (SMBH), with closer encounters resulting in larger perturbations. Exciting these tides comes at the expense of the star's orbital energy, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 M. Cufari , C. J. Nixon , Eric R. Coughlin

When a binary of early-type stars from the young stellar populations in the Galactic center (GC) region is scattered to the vicinity of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) Sgr~$\rm{A}^{*}$, one of the components would be tidally ejected as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-27 Chunyang Cao , Fukun Liu , Shuo Li , Xian Chen , Ke Wang

Recent surveys have identified seven hypervelocity stars (HVSs) in the halo of the Milky Way. Most of these stars may have originated from the breakup of binary star systems by the nuclear black hole SgrA*. In some instances, the breakup of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Idan Ginsburg , Abraham Loeb

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are expected by the hierarchical galaxy formation model in $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. There is some evidence in the literature for SMBHBs in AGNs, but there are few observational constraints on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xian Chen , F. K. Liu , John Magorrian

The evolution of main sequence binaries that reside in the Galactic Centre can be heavily influenced by the central supermassive black hole (SMBH). Due to these perturbative effects, the stellar binaries in dense environments are likely to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-18 Yi-Han Wang , Nathan Leigh , Ye-Fei Yuan , Rosalba Perna

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are the products of frequent galaxy mergers. The coalescence of the SMBHBs is a distinct source of gravitational wave (GW) radiation. The detections of the strong GW radiation and their possible…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Shuo Li , F. K. Liu , Peter Berczik , Xian Chen , Rainer Spurzem

By using direct N-body numerical simulations, we model the dynamical co-evolution of two supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and the surrounding stars in merging galaxies. In order to investigate how different stellar components evolve during…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 Shuo Li , Shiyan Zhong , Peter Berczik , Rainer Spurzem , Xian Chen , F. K. Liu

We discuss the properties of stellar mass black hole (BH) mergers induced by tidal encounters with a massive BH at galactic centres or potentially in dense star clusters. The tidal disruption of stellar binaries by a massive BH is known to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-31 Joseph John Fernández , Shiho Kobayashi

When binaries are injected into low-angular-momentum orbits around a central supermassive black hole (SMBH), various outcomes can occur, including binary tidal breakup, double stellar disruptions and stellar collision. We use hydrodynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-17 Fangyuan Yu , Dong Lai

We investigate the pre-disruption gravitational dynamics and post-disruption hydrodynamics of the tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries. We focus on binaries with relatively low mass primaries…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Eric R. Coughlin , Philip J. Armitage , Chris Nixon , Mitchell C. Begelman

Binary supermassive black holes (SMBH) are expected to form naturally during galaxy mergers. After the dynamical friction phase, when the two SMBHs become gravitationally bound to each other, and a brief stage of initial rapid hardening,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Kirill Lezhnin , Eugene Vasiliev

The most likely origin of hypervelocity stars (HVSs) is the tidal disruption of a binary star by the supermassive black hole (MBH) in the Galactic Centre (GC). However, HE0437-5439, a $9$ M$_\odot$ B-type main-sequence star moving with a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-27 Giacomo Fragione

We analyze the outcome of the interaction between a stellar binary and a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) by performing a large number of gravitational scattering experiments. Most of the encounters result in either the ejection of an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-22 Eric R. Coughlin , Siva Darbha , Daniel Kasen , Eliot Quataert
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