Hyper-velocity and tidal stars from binaries disrupted by a massive Galactic black hole

@article{Hills1988HypervelocityAT,  title={Hyper-velocity and tidal stars from binaries disrupted by a massive Galactic black hole},  author={JACK G. Hills},  journal={Nature},  year={1988},  volume={331},  pages={687-689},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:4250308}}
A close but newtonian encounter between a tightly bound binary and a 106 M⊙ black hole causes one binary component to become bound to the black hole and the other to be ejected at up to 4,000 km−1. The discovery of even one such hyper-velocity star coming from the Galactic centre would be nearly definitive evidence for a massive black hole. The new companion of the black hole has a high orbital velocity which increases further as its orbit shrinks by tidal dissipation. The gravitational energy… 

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