The Tidal Disruption of Stars by Supermassive Black Holes

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Focusing on the emerging field of stellar tidal disruption, this book presents groundbreaking research demonstrating that recoiling black holes can disrupt stars beyond galactic centers. It critiques traditional literature for overestimating the luminosity of tidal disruptions and explores how the precession of transient accretion disks can reveal the spins of supermassive black holes. The work is an evolution of the author's original thesis from Harvard, which garnered prestigious awards from the American Astronomical Society.