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T. Krìhler

Researcher at Max Planck Society

Publications -  2
Citations -  229

T. Krìhler is an academic researcher from Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tidal disruption event & Rotating black hole. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 197 citations.

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

Giorgos Leloudas, +62 more
- 01 Jan 2017 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that a star with the same mass as the Sun could be disrupted outside the event horizon if the black hole were spinning rapidly, and the rapid spin and high black hole mass can explain the high luminosity of this event.