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We find that the majority of systems hosting multiple tidal disruptions are likely to contain hard binary SMBH systems, and also show that the rates of these repeated events are high enough to be detected by LSST over its lifetime.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Christopher Wegg , J. Nate Bode

We study the spin and eccentricity evolution of black-hole (BH) binaries that are perturbed by tertiary masses and experience the Lidov-Kozai (LK) excitation. We focus on three aspects. Firstly, we study the spin-orbit alignment of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Hang Yu , Sizheng Ma , Matthew Giesler , Yanbei Chen

(Abridged) To gain insight into the dynamical influence of a supermassive black hole binary on a circumbinary accretion disk, we investigate the binary and viscous torque densities throughout such a disk, with emphasis on the final density…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-07 Michal Pirog , Siddharth Mahesh , Sean T. McWilliams

In a previous paper, we developed tools for studying the horizon geometry of a Kerr black hole that is tidally distorted by a binary companion using techniques that require large mass ratios but can be applied to any bound orbit and allow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-07 Stephen O'Sullivan , Scott A. Hughes

Stellar-mass binary black holes may have circumbinary disks if formed through common-envelope evolution or within gaseous environments. Disks can drive binaries into wider and more eccentric orbits, while gravitational waves harden and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-29 Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Samir Goorachurn , Magdalena Siwek , Christopher J. Moore

We study the interaction of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary and a standard radiatively efficient thin accretion disk. We examine steady-state configurations of the disk and migrating SMBH system, self-consistently accounting for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Bence Kocsis , Zoltan Haiman , Abraham Loeb

To describe a general bound binary black hole system, we need to consider orbital eccentricity and the misalignment of black holes' spin vectors with respect to the orbital angular momentum. While binary black holes produced through many…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-13 Amitesh Singh , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Anuradha Gupta , Khun Sang Phukon

Supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries represent the main target for missions such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna and Pulsar Timing Arrays. The understanding of their dynamical evolution prior to coalescence is therefore crucial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Imran Nasim , Cristobal Petrovich , Adam Nasim , Fani Dosopoulou , Fabio Antonini

The tidal breakup of binary star systems by the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the center of the galaxy has been suggested as the source of both the observed sample of hypervelocity stars (HVSs) in the halo of the Galaxy and the S-stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Fabio Antonini , Joshua Faber , Alessia Gualandris , David Merritt

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

Merging compact black-hole (BH) binaries are likely to exist in the nuclear star clusters around supermassive BHs (SMBHs), such as Sgr A$^\ast$. They may also form in the accretion disks of active galactic nuclei. Such compact binaries can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-26 Bin Liu , Dong Lai

Binary systems of black holes emit gravitational waves as they move through their orbits. While most of the emitted radiation escapes to future null infinity, a small fraction is absorbed by the black holes themselves. This is known as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-05 Danilo Chiaramello , Rossella Gamba

It is generally believed that gaseous disks around supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries in centers of galaxies can facilitate binary merger and give rise to observational signatures both in electromagnetic and gravitational wave domains.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Roman R. Rafikov

Binary stars that are on close orbits around massive black holes (MBH) such as Sgr A* in the center of the Milky Way are liable to undergo tidal disruption and eject a hypervelocity star. We study the interaction between such a MBH and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Harriet Brown , Shiho Kobayashi , Elena M. Rossi , Re'em Sari

We discuss the gravitational wave emission and the orbital evolution of a hierarchical triple system composed of an inner binary black hole (BBH) and an outer tertiary. Depending on the kick velocity at the merger, the merged BBH could…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Naoki Seto , Koutarou Kyutoku

Stellar-mass binaries evolving in the vicinity of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) may be common in the universe, either in active galactic nuclei or in other astrophysical environments. Here, we study in detail the resonant excitation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 João S. Santos , Vitor Cardoso , Alexandru Lupsasca , José Natário , Maarten van de Meent

Dynamical encounters of stellar-mass black holes (BHs) in a disc of compact objects around a supermassive BH (SMBH) can accelerate the formation and coalescence of BH binaries. It has been proposed that binary-single encounters among BHs in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-19 Alessandro Alberto Trani , Stefano Quaini , Monica Colpi

We perform a suite of numerical simulations of tidal disruption events, using smoothed particle hydrodynamics, for a close binary system consisting of two low-mass white dwarfs, and an intermediate mass non-spinning black hole. The binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-30 Aryabrat Mahapatra , Adarsh Pandey , Pritam Banerjee , Tapobrata Sarkar

We study the effect of external companion on the orbital and spin evolution of merging black-hole (BH) binaries. An sufficiently close by and inclined companion can excite Lidov-Kozai (LK) eccentricity oscillations in the binary, thereby…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-05 Bin Liu , Dong Lai

The evolution of main sequence binaries resided in the galactic centre is influenced a lot by the central super massive black hole (SMBH). Due to this perturbation, the stars in a dense environment are likely to experience mergers or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Bin Liu , Yi-Han Wang , Ye-Fei Yuan