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Gravity alone can cause lethal tidal forces without a physical collision
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SUPPORTED
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confidence 87/100

Gravitational tidal forces from black holes can completely or partially rupture passing stars without any physical collision taking place.

Evidence for · 7
Measuring Stellar and Black Hole Masses of Tidal Disruption Events
2020 · cited by 93
Paper 0 establishes that stars can be tidally disrupted by massive black holes purely through gravitational interaction.
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Tidal Disruption Events: The Role of Stellar Spin
2019 · cited by 66
Paper 1 discusses how the gravitational tidal force from a supermassive black hole rips apart a passing star.
AN UPPER LIMIT TO THE VELOCITY DISPERSION OF RELAXED STELLAR SYSTEMS WITHOUT MASSIVE BLACK HOLES
2012 · cited by 31
Paper 2 demonstrates how central black holes tidally disrupt passing stars at high rates due to gravitational forces alone.
Partial tidal disruption events by stellar mass black holes: Gravitational instability of stream and impact from remnant core
2021 · cited by 29
Paper 3 analyzes close encounters where stars are tidally disrupted by stellar mass black holes without physical collision.
Tidal Disruption Events from the Combined Effects of Two-body Relaxation and the Eccentric Kozai–Lidov Mechanism
2023 · cited by 22
Paper 4 explains that tidal disruption events occur when stars venture too close to a supermassive black hole and are ruptured by gravity.
STELLAR TIDAL DISRUPTION EVENTS BY DIRECT-COLLAPSE BLACK HOLES
2016 · cited by 19
Paper 8 describes nuclear stars being scattered onto loss cone orbits and tidally disrupted by a central black hole.
Stellar Revival and Repeated Flares in Deeply Plunging Tidal Disruption Events
2022 · cited by 18
Paper 9 examines deep encounters where gravitational tidal forces result in the partial or full disruption of a star.
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judged → SUPPORTED · 8701 Aug 2026
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