The edge of infinity : supermassive black holes in the universe /

Answers to some of the most intriguing questions now being asked about black holes.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Melia, Fulvio
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Temas:
Black holes (Astronomy)
Trous noirs (Astronomie)
SCIENCE > Astronomy.
Zwarte gaten.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The most powerful objects in the universe
  • 1.1. Beacons at the edge of reality
  • 1.2. The host galaxies of quasars
  • 1.3. The active nuclei of "normal" galaxies
  • 2. Weighing supermassive objects
  • 2.1. Accretion of plasma
  • 2.2. Deciphering the signal from the infalling gas
  • 2.3. The center of our galaxy
  • 3. The black hole spacetime
  • 3.1. The inexorable force of gravity
  • 3.2. Unseen dimensions
  • 3.3. Matter's futile resistance to total collapse
  • 3.4. The black hole spacetime
  • 3.5. Rotating black holes
  • 4. Formation of supermassive black holes
  • 4.1. Primordial seeds
  • 4.2. Galaxy types
  • 4.3. The supermassive black hole census
  • 4.4. Galaxy collisions
  • 4.5. Collision of Andromeda with the Milky Way
  • 4.6. Middleweight black holes
  • 5. Relativistic ejection of plasma
  • 5.1. Imaging supermassive black holes
  • 5.2. Jets from supermassive black holes
  • 5.3. Faster than light motion
  • 6. Supermassive black holes in the universe
  • 6.1. The Hubble Deep Field
  • 6.2. The Chandra Deep Filed
  • 6.3. The universe aglow
  • 6.4. Future directions
  • 6.5. Is the universe itself a big black hole?
  • 6.6. Ultimate fate.

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