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Supermassive black holes disrupt passing stars, producing outbursts called tidal disruption events (TDEs). TDEs have recently gained attention due to their unique dynamics and emission processes, which are still not fully understood.…

The unluckiest star orbits a supermassive black hole elliptically. Every time it reaches the pericenter, it shallowly enters the tidal radius and gets partially tidal disrupted, producing a series of flares. Confirmation of a repeated…

Stars in the immediate vicinity of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can be ripped apart by the tidal forces of the black hole. The subsequent accretion of the stellar material causes a spectacular flare of electromagnetic radiation. Here,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-06 S. Komossa

We present the results from a dense multi-wavelength (optical/UV, near-infrared (IR), and X-ray) follow-up campaign of the nuclear transient AT2017gge, covering a total of 1698 days from the transient's discovery. The bolometric lightcurve,…

Stars in galactic centers are occasionally scattered so close to the central supermassive black hole that they are completely disrupted by tidal forces, initiating a transient accretion event. The aftermath of such a tidal disruption event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-19 Andrew Mummery , Muryel Guolo , James Matthews , Megan Newsome , Chris Lintott , William Keel

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a star passes within the tidal radius of a supermassive black hole (SMBH). In TDEs it is expected that the orbital angular momentum of the disrupted star is generally misaligned with the SMBH spin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 Jin-Hong Chen , Lixin Dai , Kan Cheuk Kwan , Tom Man Kwan , Zijian Zhang

The origin of radio afterglows or delayed radio flares in tidal disruption events (TDEs) is not fully understood. They could be generated either by a forward shock (FS) propagating into diffuse circumnuclear medium (CNM), or a bow shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-30 Guobin Mou , Xinwen Shu

AT2022cmc was recently reported as the first on-axis jetted tidal disruption event (TDE) discovered in the last decade, and the fourth on-axis jetted TDE candidate known so far. In this work, we present NuSTAR hard X-ray (3--30 keV)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-22 Yuhan Yao , Wenbin Lu , Fiona Harrison , S. R. Kulkarni , Suvi Gezari , Muryel Guolo , S. Bradley Cenko , Anna Y. Q. Ho

We present observations of an extreme radio flare, VT J024345.70-284040.08, hereafter VT J0243, from the nucleus of a galaxy with evidence for historic Seyfert activity at redshift $z=0.074$. Between NRAO VLA Sky Survey observations in 1993…

We present a systematic analysis of the radio properties of an X-ray selected sample of tidal disruption event (TDE) candidates discovered by the eROSITA telescope. We find radio sources coincident with half of the transient events (11…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-15 A. J. Goodwin , M. Burn , G. E. Anderson , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , I. Grotova , P. Baldini , Z. Liu , A. Malyali , A. Rau , M. Salvato

The tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole is expected to yield a luminous flare of thermal emission. About two dozen of these stellar tidal disruption flares (TDFs) may have been detected in optical transient surveys. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-11 Sjoert van Velzen

About a hundred tidal disruption events (TDEs) have been observed and they exhibit a wide range of emission properties both at peak and over their lifetimes. Some TDEs peak predominantly at X-ray energies while others radiate chiefly at UV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 Lars Lund Thomsen , Tom Kwan , Lixin Dai , Samantha Wu , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

The sporadic accretion following the tidal disruption of a star by a super-massive black hole (TDE) leads to a bright UV and soft X-ray flare in the galactic nucleus. The gas and dust surrounding the black hole responses to such a flare…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-02 Liming Dou , Ting-gui Wang , Ning Jiang , Chenwei Yang , Jianwei Lyu , Hongyan Zhou

The geometrically thick dusty torus structure is believed to exist in the nuclear region of galaxies (especially in active galactic nuclei, AGNs). The debris stream from a tidal disruption event (TDE) will possibly collide with the dusty…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-29 Xiangli Lei , Qingwen Wu , Hui Li , Ya-Ping Li , Wei-Hua Lei , Xiao Fan , Jiancheng Wu , Mengye Wang , Weibo Yang

We present new observations with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array of seven X-ray-selected tidal disruption events (TDEs). The radio observations were carried out between 9 and 22 years after the initial X-ray discovery, and, thus, probe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Geoffrey C. Bower , Brian D. Metzger , S. Bradley Cenko , Jeffrey M. Silverman , Joshua S. Bloom

Tidal disruption events (TDEs), in which stars are gravitationally disrupted as they pass close to the supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies, are potentially important probes of strong gravity and accretion physics. Most TDEs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-10 C. Tadhunter , R. Spence , M. Rose , J. Mullaney , P. Crowther

Nuclear star clusters (NSCs), made up of a dense concentrations of stars and the compact objects they leave behind, are ubiquitous in the central regions of galaxies, surrounding the central supermassive black hole (SMBH). Close…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-28 Taeho Ryu , Rosalba Perna , Matteo Cantiello

When a star passes through the tidal disruption radius of a massive black hole (BH), it can be torn apart by the tidal force of the BH, known as the Tidal Disruption Event (TDE). Since the observed UV/optical luminosity significantly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-17 Hengxiao Guo , Jingbo Sun , Shuang-Liang Li , Yan-Fei Jiang , Tinggui Wang , Defu Bu , Ning Jiang , Yanan Wang , Yuhan Yao , Rongfeng Shen , Minfeng Gu , Mouyuan Sun

Observations of the spectacular, blazar-like tidal disruption event (TDE) candidates Swift J1644+57 and J2058+05 show that the conditions required for accelerating protons to 10^{20} eV appear to be realized in the outer jet, and possibly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-05 Glennys R. Farrar , Tsvi Piran