What Does a Black Hole Look Like? / / Charles D. Bailyn.
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 celestial...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Frontiers in Physics ;
4 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 21 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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