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astro-ph.HE2016★ 237 cited
The Superluminous Transient ASASSN-15lh as a Tidal Disruption Event from a Kerr Black Hole
G. Leloudas, M. Fraser, N. C. Stone +47
When a star passes within the tidal radius of a supermassive black hole, it will be torn apart. For a star with the mass of the Sun () and a non-spinning black hole with a…
astro-ph.HE2016★ 118 cited
Discovery of transient infrared emission from dust heated by stellar tidal disruption flares
Sjoert van Velzen, Alexander J. Mendez, Julian H. Krolik +1
Stars that pass within the Roche radius of a supermassive black hole will be tidally disrupted, yielding a sudden injection of gas close to the black hole horizon which produces an…