Supermassive black holes
By: King, Andrew.
Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2023Description: xvii, 308p.ISBN: 9781108488051.Subject(s): Black holes (Astronomy) | PhysicsDDC classification: 523.8875 | K58s Summary: Written by an international leader in the field, this is a coherent and accessible account of the concepts that are now vital for understanding cutting-edge work on supermassive black holes. These include accretion disc misalignment, disc breaking and tearing, chaotic accretion, the merging of binary supermassive holes, the demographics of supermassive black holes, and the defining effects of feedback on their host galaxies. The treatment is largely analytic and gives in-depth discussions of the underlying physics, including gas dynamics, ideal and non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics, force-free electrodynamics, accretion disc physics, and the properties of the Kerr metric. It stresses aspects where conventional assumptions may be inappropriate and encourages the reader to think critically about current models. This volume will be useful for graduate or Masters courses in astrophysics, and as a handbook for active researchers in the field. eBook formats include colour figures while print formats are greyscale only.| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 523.8875 F766 FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF BLACK HOLES IN THE GALAXY | 523.8875 F925i Introduction to black hole physics | 523.8875 K466 The Kerr spacetime | 523.8875 K58s Supermassive black holes | 523.8875 L971B BLACK HOLES | 523.8875 M486g The galactic supermassive black hole | 523.8875 R134b3 Black holes |
Written by an international leader in the field, this is a coherent and accessible account of the concepts that are now vital for understanding cutting-edge work on supermassive black holes. These include accretion disc misalignment, disc breaking and tearing, chaotic accretion, the merging of binary supermassive holes, the demographics of supermassive black holes, and the defining effects of feedback on their host galaxies. The treatment is largely analytic and gives in-depth discussions of the underlying physics, including gas dynamics, ideal and non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics, force-free electrodynamics, accretion disc physics, and the properties of the Kerr metric. It stresses aspects where conventional assumptions may be inappropriate and encourages the reader to think critically about current models. This volume will be useful for graduate or Masters courses in astrophysics, and as a handbook for active researchers in the field. eBook formats include colour figures while print formats are greyscale only.
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