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Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are bursts of electromagnetic energy released when supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of galaxies violently disrupt a star that passes too close. TDEs provide a new window to study accretion onto…

Accretion of debris seems to be the natural mechanism to power the radiation emitted during a tidal disruption event (TDE), in which a supermassive black hole tears apart a star. However, this requires the prompt formation of a compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-23 Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran , Scott Noble , Mark Avara

We discuss a possibility that a tidal disruption event near a dormant supermassive black hole (SMBH) can give rise to spectral features of iron in 6-7 keV X-ray signal: a relativistic line profile emerges from debris illuminated and ionised…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 V. Karas , M. Dovciak , D. Kunneriath , W. Yu , W. Zhang

Stars passing too close to a super massive black hole (SMBH) can produce tidal disruption events (TDEs). Since the resulting stellar debris can produce an electromagnetic flare, TDEs are believed to probe the presence of single SMBHs in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-21 Giacomo Fragione , Nathan Leigh

The short-term X-ray variability of tidal disruption events (TDEs) and its similarities with active galactic nuclei (AGN) are poorly understood. In this work, we show the diversity of TDE's short-term X-ray variability, and take Swift…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 Chichuan Jin

The strong tidal force in a supermassive black hole's (SMBH) vicinity, coupled with a higher stellar density at the center of a galaxy, make it an ideal location to study the interaction between stars and black holes. Two stars moving near…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-17 Betty X. Hu , Avi Loeb

Gamma-ray observations of a stellar tidal disruption event (TDE) detected by the Swift satellite and follow up observations in radio, mm, infrared and x-ray bands have provided a rich data set to study accretion onto massive blackholes,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-17 P. Kumar , R. Barniol Duran , Z. Bosnjak , T. Piran

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are an important way to probe the properties of stellar populations surrounding supermassive black holes. Observed spectra of several TDEs, such as ASASSN-14li, show high nitrogen to carbon abundance ratios,…

We explore the rates of tidal disruption events (TDEs) of stars by supermassive black holes (SBHs) in galactic nuclei formed in mergers followed by a formation and coalescence of a binary SBH. Such systems initially have a deficit of stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-09 Kirill Lezhnin , Eugene Vasiliev

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when stars are destroyed by supermassive black holes and are among the brightest nuclear transients. It has been thought that strong relativistic effects rapidly dissipate orbital energy and produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-05 Ho-Sang Chan , Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are luminous black hole (BH) transient sources, which are detected mainly in X-ray and optical bands. It is generally believed that the X-ray emission in TDEs is produced by an accretion disc formed as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-06 Erlin Qiao , Yongxin Wu , Yiyang Lin , Meng Guo , Jifeng Liu , Chenlei Guo , Chichuan Jin , Ning Jiang

There has been suggestive evidence of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs; 10^{3-5} M_sun) existing in some globular clusters (GCs) and dwarf galaxies, but IMBHs as a population remain elusive. As a main-sequence star passes too close by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-30 Jin-Hong Chen , Rong-Feng Shen

Stars that interact with supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can either be completely or partially destroyed by tides. In a partial tidal disruption event (TDE) the high-density core of the star remains intact, and the low-density, outer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 T. Wevers , E. R. Coughlin , D. R. Pasham , M. Guolo , Y. Sun , S. Wen , P. G. Jonker , A. Zabludoff , A. Malyali , R. Arcodia , Z. Liu , A. Merloni , A. Rau , I. Grotova , P. Short , Z. Cao

During a close encounter between a star and a supermassive black hole, the star can get disrupted by the black hole's tidal forces, resulting in a tidal disruption event (TDE). The accretion of the star's material onto the black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-04 J. Hampel , S. Komossa , J. Greiner , T. H. Reiprich , M. Freyberg , T. Erben

A starburst induced by a galaxy merger may create a relatively thin central stellar disk at radius $\le 100$pc. We calculate the rate of tidal disruption events (TDEs) by the inspiraling secondary supermassive black (SMBH) through the disk.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-11 Renyue Cen

Stars that orbit too close to a black hole can be ripped apart by strong tides, producing a type of luminous transient event called a ``tidal disruption event" (TDE). Tidal disruption events of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-20 Brenna Mockler , Erica Hammerstein , Eric R. Coughlin , Matt Nicholl

In dense star clusters, such as globular and open clusters, dynamical interactions between stars and black holes (BHs) can be extremely frequent, leading to various astrophysical transients. Close encounters between a star and a stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Yi-Han Wang , Rosalba Perna , Philip J. Armitage

A detailed model of the tidal disruption events (TDEs) has been constructed using stellar dynamical and gas dynamical inputs that include black hole (BH) mass $M_{\bullet}$, specific orbital energy $E$ and angular momentum $J$, star mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-09 T. Mageshwaran , A. Mangalam

The formation of a compact accretion disk following a tidal disruption event (TDE) requires that the shocked stellar debris cool efficiently as it settles toward the black hole. While recent simulations suggest that stream dissipation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-18 Semih Tuna , Brian D. Metzger , Yan-Fei Jiang , Andrea Antoni

While gas accretion onto some massive black holes (MBHs) at the centers of galaxies actively powers luminous emission, the vast majority of MBHs are considered dormant. Occasionally, a star passing too near a MBH is torn apart by…

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