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astro-ph.HE2026
A Self-Sustaining Black Hole Engine Powered by the Tidal Disruptions of Stars
James Guillochon, Avi Loeb
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) strongly prefer host galaxies undergoing, or recovering from, a burst of star formation, implying that a rare minority of galaxy types produces most…
astro-ph.HE2024
Accretion Flares from Stellar Collisions in Galactic Nuclei
Betty X. Hu, Avi Loeb
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 inter…