Watching a Star Circle the Supermassive Drain
Black holes are powerful enough to rip apart stars caught in their orbit– but we’ve seen the signals from a few of these disruptive events repeat. What happens when a black hole only eats part of a star?
Three’s a Crowd for Stars Around SMBH Binaries
How can we use the demise of an unlucky star to learn about binary supermassive black holes? Today’s paper answers that very question!
Investigating supermassive black hole mergers using cosmological simulations
Find out how cosmological simulations help us probe supermassive binary black holes in today’s paper.
Close Encounters of stars with the black hole binaries kind
Find out what happens when a star comes too close to a binary black hole system in today’s astrobite.
To View or Not to View: Explaining Optical/X-ray Evolution in Tidal Disruption Events with Viewing Angle and Accretion Rate Dependence
Today’s paper presents a unified model for tidal disruption events, in which a star gets shredded by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole!
Astrobites at AAS 241: Day 4
Astrobites covers the 4th and final day of talks at AAS 241.