The Rapidly Spinning Intermediate-Mass Black Hole 3XMM J150052.0+015452

A star tidally disrupted by a black hole can form an accretion disc with a super-Eddington mass accretion rate; the X-ray emission produced by the inner disc provides constraints on the black hole mass M_\bullet and dimensionless spin parameter a_\bullet. Previous studies have suggested that the M_\bullet responsible for the... Show more