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

Sollerman, J.; Gal-Yam, A.; Kim, S. +47 more

When a star passes within the tidal radius of a supermassive black hole, it will be torn apart¹. For a star with the mass of the Sun (M _⊙) and a non-spinning black hole with a mass <10⁸ M _⊙, the tidal radius lies outside the black hole event horizon² and the disruption results in a luminous…