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Accretion onto black holes is an efficient mechanism in converting the gas mass-energy into energetic outputs as radiation, wind and jet. Tidal disruption events, in which stars are tidally torn apart and then accreted onto supermassive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-14 Jane Lixin Dai , Giuseppe Lodato , Roseanne M. Cheng

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star passes close to a massive black hole, so that the tidal forces of the black hole exceed the binding energy of a star and cause it to be ripped apart. Part of the matter will fall onto the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Natalie A. Webb , Didier Barret , Olivier Godet , Maitrayee Gupta , Dacheng Lin , Erwan Quintin , Hugo Tranin

In this Letter, we simulate the collision between outflows from the tidal disruption of a 1M$_\odot$ main sequence star around a $10^6$M$_\odot$ black hole and an initially spherically symmetric circumnuclear cloud. We launch…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-21 Fangyi , Hu , Adelle Goodwin , Daniel J. Price , Ilya Mandel , Re'em Sari , Kimitake Hayasaki

For an inclined accretion flow around a rotating black hole, the combined effect of the Lense-Thirring precession and viscous torque tends to align the inner part of the flow with the black hole spin, leading to the formation of a warped…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 Wenda Zhang , Wenfei Yu , Vladimír Karas , Michal Dovčiak

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recently discovered transients of unknown nature occurring near supermassive black holes, which feature bright X-ray bursts separated by hours to days. A promising model for QPEs is the star-disc…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-04 Taj Jankovič , Clément Bonnerot , Sergey Karpov , Aleksej Jurca

Tidal disruption events (TDE) in which a star is devoured by a massive black hole at a galac- tic center pose a challenge to our understanding of accretion processes. Within a month the accretion rate reaches super-Eddington levels. It then…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Tsvi Piran , Aleksander Sadowski , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are valuable probes of the demographics of supermassive black holes as well as the dynamics and population of stars in the centers of galaxies. In this Letter, we focus on studying how the debris disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Thomas Hong Tsun Wong , Hugo Pfister , Lixin Dai

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star, passing too close to a massive black hole, is ripped apart by tidal forces. A less dramatic event occurs if the star orbits just outside the tidal radius, resulting in a mild stripping of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-02 Deborah Mainetti , Sergio Campana , Monica Colpi , Giuseppe Lodato , Paolo D'Avanzo , Phil Evans , Alberto Moretti

In addition to a supermassive black hole (SMBH), the central parsec of the Milky Way hosts over a hundred of massive, high velocity young stars whose existence, and organisation of a subset of them in one, or possibly two, mis-aligned…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-09 Rosalba Perna , Evgeni Grishin

After the destruction of the star during a tidal disruption event (TDE), the cataclysmic encounter between a star and the supermassive black hole (SMBH) of a galaxy, approximately half of the original stellar debris falls back onto the hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-15 Eric R. Coughlin , Mitchell C. Begelman

Accretion of stars on massive black holes (MBHs) can feed MBHs and generate tidal disruption events (TDEs). We introduce a new physically motivated model to self-consistently treat TDEs in cosmological simulations, and apply it to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-25 Hugo Pfister , Jane Dai , Marta Volonteri , Katie Auchettl , Maxime Trebitsch , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

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

We perform numerical simulations of clouds in the Galactic Centre (GC) engulfing the nuclear super-massive black hole and show that this mechanism leads to the formation of gaseous accretion discs with properties that are similar to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-05-03 Christian Alig , Andreas Burkert , Peter H. Johansson , Marc Schartmann

We construct a time-dependent relativistic accretion model for tidal disruption events (TDEs) with an $\alpha-$viscosity and the pressure dominated by gas pressure. We also include the mass fallback rate $\dot{M}_f$ for both full and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 T. Mageshwaran , Sudip Bhattacharyya

The rising part of a tidal disruption event light curve provides unique insight into early emission and the onset of accretion. Various mechanisms are proposed to explain the pre-peak emission, including shocks from debris interaction and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-30 Xiaoshan Huang , Shane W. Davis , Yan-fei Jiang

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when the gravitational field of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) destroys a star. For TDEs in which the star enters deep within the tidal radius, such that the ratio of the tidal radius to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Suman Kumar Kundu , Eric R. Coughlin , C. J. Nixon

An encounter between a passing star and a massive black hole at the centre of a galaxy, a so-called tidal disruption event or TDE, may leave a debris disc that subsequently accretes onto the hole. We solve for the time evolution of such a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-19 Steven A. Balbus , Andrew Mummery

We report results from general relativistic radiation MHD (GRRMHD) simulations of a super-Eddington black hole (BH) accretion disk formed as a result of a tidal disruption event (TDE). We consider the fiducial case of a solar mass star on a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-19 Brandon Curd , Ramesh Narayan

Stars orbiting supermassive black holes can generate recurring accretion flares in repeating partial tidal disruption events (TDEs). Here we develop an efficient formalism for analyzing the time-dependent response of a star to the removal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-20 Ananya Bandopadhyay , Eric R. Coughlin , C. J. Nixon

We develop a Newtonian model of a deep tidal disruption event (TDE), for which the pericenter distance of the star, $r_{\rm p}$, is well within the tidal radius of the black hole, $r_{\rm t}$, i.e., when $\beta \equiv r_{\rm t}/r_{\rm p}…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Eric R. Coughlin , Chris Nixon