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Tidal disruption flares from stars on eccentric orbits
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2012 We study tidal disruption and subsequent mass fallback for stars approaching supermassive black holes on bound orbits, by performing three dimensional Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations with a pseudo-Newtonian potential.
Loeb A., Stone N., Hayasaki K.
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Formation of Supermassive Black Hole Seeds [PDF]
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2016 Abstract The detection of quasars at z > 6 unveils the presence of supermassive black holes of a few billion solar masses. The rapid formation process of these extreme objects remains a fascinating and open issue.
Latif, M., FERRARA, ANDREA
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Black Hole Images as Tests of General Relativity: Effects of Spacetime Geometry
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 The images of supermassive black holes surrounded by optically thin, radiatively inefficient accretion flows, like those observed with the Event Horizon Telescope, are characterized by a bright ring of emission surrounding the black hole shadow.
Ziri Younsi +2 more
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Eötvös experiments with supermassive black holes [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016 By examining the locations of central black holes in two elliptical galaxies, M\,32 and M\,87, we derive constraints on the violation of the strong equivalence principle for purely gravitational objects, i.e. black holes, of less than about two-thirds, $η_N<0.68$ from the gravitational interaction of M\,87 with its neighbours in the Virgo cluster ...
Asvathaman, Asha +2 more
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Supermassive Black Holes [PDF]
Journal of High Energy Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2019 The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is aiming to image the event horizon of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. Andrea Ghez has mapped out the orbits of stars around this supermassive black hole and deduced it has a mass of four million Suns. An even bigger supermassive black hole of six billion solar masses lies at the centre of the
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THE SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE IN M84 REVISITED [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2010 The mass of the central black hole in the giant elliptical galaxy M84 has previously been measured by two groups using the same observations of emission-line gas with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the Hubble Space Telescope, giving strongly discrepant results: Bower et al. (1998) found M_BH = (1.5^{+1.1}_{-0.6}) x 10^9 M_sun, while
Walsh, Jonelle L. +2 more
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Supermassive black hole merger rates: Uncertainties from halo merger theory [PDF]
, 2006 The merger of two supermassive black holes is expected to produce a gravitational-wave signal detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna(LISA). The rate of supermassive-black-hole mergers is intimately connected to the halo merger rate, and the
Kamionkowski, M. +2 more
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Annalen der Physik, Volume 538, Issue 8, August 2026.ABSTRACT The unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity remains a central problem in fundamental physics. Here, we study the gravitomagnetic Aharonov–Bohm (AB) effect for Cooper pairs in Kerr spacetime. Frame‐dragging by a rotating black hole (BH) generates an effective vector potential through the off‐diagonal metric term gtϕ$g_{t\phi }$,
Erdem Sucu, İzzet Sakallı
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Breaking black-hole uniqueness at supermassive scales [PDF]
International audienceIn general relativity, all vacuum black holes are described by the Kerr solution. Beyond general relativity, there is a prevailing expectation that deviations from the Kerr solution increase with the horizon curvature.
Silva, Hector O. +9 more
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Fortschritte der Physik, Volume 74, Issue 8, August 2026.ABSTRACT We apply the boundary‐only isothermal formulation of finite‐distance weak gravitational deflection to regular black holes, black‐bounces, traversable wormholes, non‐asymptotically flat backgrounds, and static quadrupolar spacetimes. The methodological advance is not a new value for a known bending angle.
Reggie C. Pantig, Ali Övgün
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