What Does a Black Hole Look Like? /
"Emitting no radiation or any other kind of information, black holes mark the edge of the universe--both physically and in our scientific understanding. Yet astronomers have found clear evidence for the existence of black holes, employing the same tools and techniques used to explore other cele...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introducing Black Holes: Event Horizons and Singularities
- 2. Accretion onto a Black Hole
- 3. Outflows and Jets
- 4. Stellar-Mass Black Holes
- 5. Supermassive Black Holes
- 6. Formation and Evolution of Black Holes
- 7. Do Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Exist?
- 8. Black Hole Spin
- 9. Detecting Black Holes through
- 10. Black Hole Exotica
- Glossary
- Index.


