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Stars that approach a supermassive black hole (SMBH) too closely can be disrupted by the tidal gravitational field of the SMBH. The resulting debris forms a tidal stream orbiting the SMBH which can collide with itself due to relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-24 Joseph Rossi , Juan Servin , Michael Kesden

This work explores a scenario for micro-tidal disruption events (TDEs) triggered by close encounters between high-speed white dwarfs (WDs) and stellar-mass black holes (sBHs) in galactic centers. In this model, a WD orbiting the central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-09 Xinyu Li , Houyi Sun , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Huan Yang

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) take place when a star ventures too close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) and becomes ruptured. One of the leading proposed physical mechanisms often invoked in the literature involves weak two-body…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-16 Denyz Melchor , Brenna Mockler , Smadar Naoz , Sanaea Rose , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Rates of stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) due to two-body relaxation are calculated using a large galaxy sample (N=146) in order to explore the sensitivity of the TDE rates to observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-26 Nicholas C. Stone , Brian D. Metzger

A description of the event horizon of a perturbed Schwarzschild black hole is provided in terms of the intrinsic and extrinsic geometries of the null hypersurface. This description relies on a Gauss-Codazzi theory of null hypersurfaces…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-06 Ian Vega , Eric Poisson , Ryan Massey

Stars approaching supermassive black holes can be tidally disrupted. Despite being expected to emit X-rays, TDEs have been largely observed in optical bands, which is poorly understood. In this Letter, we simulate the tidal disruption of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-29 Fangyi , Hu , Daniel J. Price , Ilya Mandel

When a star passes too close to a supermassive black hole, it gets disrupted by strong tidal forces. The stellar debris then evolves into an elongated stream of gas that partly falls back towards the black hole. We present an analytical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-18 Clément Bonnerot , Martin E. Pessah , Wenbin Lu

After the Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) of a star around a SuperMassive Black Hole (SMBH), if the stellar debris stream rapidly circularizes and forms a compact disk, the TDE emission is expected to peak in the soft X-ray or far Ultra-Violet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 J. J. Zanazzi , Gordon I. Ogilvie

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star gets torn apart by the strong tidal forces of a supermassive black hole, which results in the formation of a debris stream that partly falls back towards the compact object. This gas moves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Clément Bonnerot , Wenbin Lu

When debris from a star that experienced a tidal disruption events (TDE) after passing too close to a massive black hole returns to pericenter on the second passage, it is compressed, leading to the formation of nozzle shocks (in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-08 Fangyi Fitz Hu , Ilya Mandel , Rebecca Nealon , Daniel J. Price

The tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can be used to probe the SMBH mass function, the properties of individual stars, and stellar dynamics in galactic nuclei. Upcoming missions will detect thousands of TDEs, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 Elen C. A. Golightly , C. J. Nixon , Eric R. Coughlin

We present a physically-grounded population model for optical tidal disruption events (TDEs) that combines first-principles hydrodynamic simulations of stellar disruption with statistical inference of the underlying stellar and black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-29 Tsvi Piran , Julian Krolik , Taeho Ryu

We construct a general relativistic model for the accretion flow of a rotating finite cloud of non-interacting particles infalling onto a Schwarzschild black hole. The streamlines start at a spherical shell, where boundary conditions are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-20 Emilio Tejeda , Sergio Mendoza , John C. Miller

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

A star is tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole when their separation is shorter than the "tidal radius". This quantity is often estimated on an order-of-magnitude basis without reference to the star's internal structure. Using…

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

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when stars pass close enough to supermassive black holes to be torn apart by tidal forces. Traditionally, these events are studied with computationally intensive hydrodynamical simulations. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-10 Zihan Zhou , Giovanni Maria Tomaselli , Irvin Martínez-Rodríguez , Jingping Li

We present hydrodynamic simulations with the moving-mesh code AREPO of Tidal Disruption Encores (TDEEs) in nuclear star clusters (NSCs). TDEEs arise when a stellar-mass black hole (sBH) disrupts a star within the NSC, producing debris that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-02 Ian P. A. Johnson , Taeho Ryu , Rosalba Perna

Using a suite of fully relativistic hydrodynamic simulations applied to main-sequence stars with realistic internal density profiles, we examine full and partial tidal disruptions across a wide range of black hole mass ($10^{5}\leq M_{\rm…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-02 Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran , Scott C. Noble

Tidal disruption event (TDE) light curves are increasingly used to infer the masses of quiescent supermassive black holes ($M_{\rm{BH}}$), offering a powerful probe of low-mass black hole demographics independent of host-galaxy scaling…

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star is disrupted by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole (SMBH), producing bright multi-wavelength flares. Among these events, AT2020mot has so far exhibited the highest recorded optical…