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Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies occasionally disrupt stars or consume stellar-mass black holes (BHs) that wander too close, producing observable electromagnetic or gravitational wave signals. We examine how mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-10 Barak Rom , Re'em Sari

We present an analytic and fully relativistic framework for studying the self-intersection of tidal disruption event (TDE) streams, restricting ourselves to the Schwarzschild spacetime. By taking advantage of the closed-form solution to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Alexander J. Dittmann

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) have long been hypothesized as valuable indicators of black holes, offering insight into their demographics and behaviour out to high redshift. TDEs have also enabled the discovery of a few Massive Black Holes…

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) have recently been proposed as potential probes for Population III stars. However, the properties of the accretion flow and the wind from the Pop III star TDE system are not clear. By performing radiative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-29 Yu-Heng Sheng , De-Fu Bu , Xiao-Hong Yang , Yi-Ren Chang , Liang Chen

It has been suggested that an intermediate-massive black hole (IMBH) with mass $10^{3-5} M_\odot$ could fall into the galactic center (GC) and form a massive black hole binary (MBHB) with the central supermassive black hole, but current…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Xian Chen , F. K. Liu

In this paper we develop a computationally efficient, two-population, time-dependent Fokker-Plank approach in the two dimensions of energy and angular momentum to study the rates of tidal disruption events (TDEs), extreme mass ratio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-08 Luca Broggi , Elisa Bortolas , Matteo Bonetti , Alberto Sesana , Massimo Dotti

Flares from tidal disruption events are unique tracers of quiescent black holes at the centre of galaxies. The appearance of these flares is very sensitive to whether the star is totally or partially disrupted, and in this paper we seek to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Deborah Mainetti , Alessandro Lupi , Sergio Campana , Monica Colpi , Eric R. Coughlin , James Guillochon , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) are transient events observed when a star passes close enough to a supermassive black hole to be tidally destroyed. Many TDE candidates have been discovered in host galaxies whose spectra have weak or no line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-12 K. Decker French , Iair Arcavi , Ann Zabludoff

After the Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) of a star around a SuperMassive Black Hole (SMBH), the bound stellar debris rapidly forms an accretion disk. If the accretion disk is not aligned with the spinning SMBH's equatorial plane, the disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 J. J. Zanazzi , Dong Lai

Wind is a key mechanism for supermassive black hole (SMBH) feedback to their host galaxies. In tidal disruption events (TDEs), black holes spend most of their time accreting at highly sub-Eddington rates, implying that feedback from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Mingjun Liu , De-Fu Bu , Xiao-Hong Yang , Jiaqi Li , Huaqing Cheng , Qinyu Wu , Wenjie Zhang , B. F. Liu

This is the second in a series of papers presenting the results of fully general relativistic simulations of stellar tidal disruptions in which the stars' initial states are realistic main-sequence models. We consider eight different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-14 Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran , Scott Noble

The rate of tidal disruption events (TDEs) depends sensitively on the stellar properties of the central galactic regions. Simulations show that galaxy mergers cause gas inflows, triggering nuclear starbursts, increasing the central stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-09 Hugo Pfister , Ben Bar-Or , Marta Volonteri , Yohan Dubois , Pedro R. Capelo

We have modeled the time-variable profiles of the Halpha emission line from the non-axisymmetric disk and debris tail created in the tidal disruption of a solar-type star by a million solar mass black hole. Two tidal disruption event…

A tidal disruption event (TDE) takes place when a star passes near enough to a massive black hole to be disrupted. About half the star's matter is given elliptical trajectories with large apocenter distances, the other half is unbound. To…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-08 Tsvi Piran , Gilad Svirski , Julian Krolik , Roseanne M. Cheng , Hotaka Shiokawa

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

EP240222a is the first intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) tidal disruption event (TDE) captured in real-time with multi-wavelength observations and spectroscopic confirmation. However, its light curves deviate substantially from previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 Wenkai Li , Ning Jiang , Tinggui Wang , Rongfeng Shen , Erlin Qiao , Lixin Dai , Di Luo , Dongyue Li , Chichuan Jin , Jiazheng Zhu

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

Supermassive Binary Black Holes (SMBBHs) with sub-pc separations form in the course of galaxy mergers, if both galaxies harbour massive black holes. Clear observational evidence for them however still eludes us. We propose a novel method of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Patrick Brem , Jorge Cuadra , Pau Amaro-Seoane , S. Komossa

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) release enormous amounts of energy, offering a promising avenue for detecting Population III (Pop III) stars. However, the radiative properties of TDEs of Pop III stars have so far been studied only…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-13 Yu-Heng Sheng , De-Fu Bu , Liang Chen , Shi-Yin Shen , Bo-Yan Chen , Xiao-Hong Yang
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