The superluminous transient ASASSN-15lh as a tidal disruption event from a Kerr black hole

Giorgos Leloudas,Morgan Fraser,Nicholas C. Stone,S. van Velzen,Peter G. Jonker,Iair Arcavi,Christoffer Fremling,Justyn R. Maund,Stephen Smartt,T. Krìhler,James C. A. Miller-Jones,P. M. Vreeswijk,Avishay Gal-Yam,Paolo A. Mazzali,A. De Cia,D. A. Howell,Cosimo Inserra,Ferdinando Patat,A. de Ugarte Postigo,Ofer Yaron,C. Ashall,I. Bar,H. Campbell,T.-W. Chen,M. Childress,Nancy Elias-Rosa,J. Harmanen,Griffin Hosseinzadeh,Joel Johansson,Tuomas Kangas,Erkki Kankare,S. Kim,H. Kuncarayakti,J. D. Lyman,M. R. Magee,Kate Maguire,Daniele Malesani,Seppo Mattila,Curtis McCully,M. Nicholl,Simon Prentice,C. Romero-Cañizales,S. Schulze,K. W. Smith,Jesper Sollerman,Mark Sullivan,Brad E. Tucker,Stefano Valenti,J. C. Wheeler,D. R. Young

The superluminous transient ASASSN-15lh as a tidal disruption event from a Kerr black hole

2016

Transient object ASASSN-15lh was previously cast as the most luminous supernova ever discovered. Now, however, there is convincing evidence that its flare was a tidal disruption event: a rapidly-spinning black hole tearing apart a neighbouring star.

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Fuzzball
Q star
X-ray binary
Astronomy
Spaghettification
Binary black hole
Astrophysics
Spin-flip
Tidal disruption event
Stellar black hole
Physics
Black hole
Schwarzschild radius
Intermediate-mass black hole
Supermassive black hole
Rotating black hole

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