ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Supermassive Black Hole Transients: From Single Brush Strokes to the Entire Painting
In the past decade, a plethora of transients in galaxy centers has been discovered and their study has become a flourishing field of research. Many of these so-called “nuclear transients” (given their position in the nuclei of galaxies) are interpreted as tidal disruption events (TDEs) around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and are used to study accretion physics, galaxy dynamics, SMBH growth and environments, stellar populations in galactic nuclei and more. However, important puzzles surrounding these transients – their nature, emission mechanisms and host-galaxy preference – remain unsolved largely due to their rarity (<100 events are known). We need larger samples to measure their…
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