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9781107005532

Black Holes: Proceedings of the Space Institute Symposium, Held in Baltimore, Maryland April 23-26, 2007

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    9781107005532

  • ISBN10:

    1107005531

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-03-28
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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Black holes, once considered to be of purely theoretical interest, play an important role in observational astronomy and a range of astrophysical phenomena. This volume is based on a meeting held at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which explored the many aspects of black hole astrophysics. Written by world experts in areas of stellar-mass, intermediate-mass and supermassive black holes, these review papers provide an up-to-date overview of developments in this field. Topics discussed range from black hole entropy and the fate of information to supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies, and from the possibility of producing black holes in collider experiments to the measurements of black hole spins. This is an invaluable resource for researchers currently working in the field, and for graduate students interested in this active and growing area of research.

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Participantsp. vii
Prefacep. ix
Black holes, entropy, and informationp. 1
Gravitational waves from black-hole mergersp. 8
Out-of-this-world physics: Black holes at future collidersp. 21
Black holes in globular clustersp. 46
Evolution of massive black holesp. 62
Supermassive black holes in deep multiwavelength surveysp. 80
Black-hole masses from reverberation mappingp. 100
Black-hole masses from gas dynamicsp. 112
Evolution of supermassive black holesp. 136
Black-hole masses of distant quasarsp. 150
The accretion history of supermassive black holesp. 173
Strong field gravity and spin of black holes from broad iron linesp. 182
Birth of massive black-hole binariesp. 191
Dynamics around supermassive black holesp. 215
Black-hole formation and growth: Simulations in general relativityp. 238
Estimating the spins of stellar-mass black holesp. 252
Stellar relaxation processes near the Galactic massive black holep. 261
Tidal disruptions of stars by supermassive black holesp. 286
Where to look for radiatively inefficient accrection flows in low-luminosity AGNp. 294
Making black holes visible; Accretion, radiation, and jetsp. 309
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