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The consequences of the tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole are considered. The initial extremely eccentric orbit of the stellar debris will become a circular orbit near the tidal radius after experiencing strong shocks which thermalize the orbital energy on a relatively short time scale. The subsequent evolution of the accretion disk is studied using a time-dependent alpha-disk model. It is suggested that some fraction of galaxies (particularly dwarf ellipticals) should be extremely bright at far-UV wavelengths if they contain black holes of 1 to 100 million solar masses. On the other hand, these results may argue against the presence of massive black holes in nearby galaxies such as M32.
Cannizzo et al. (Thu,) studied this question.