Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2003. — XXIII, 265 p. — ISBN: 0-7503-0560-6. This text leads the reader through a range of topics in modern science. It begins with simple ideas in geometry and describes what Einstein's theories of relativity are about and how they have been used to understand the universe and some of the exotic structures it may contain. Space...
New York: Walker & Co (Lib) (December 1978), 60 pages
Isaac Asimov is a master storyteller, one of the world’s greatest writers of science fiction. He is also a noted expert on the history of scientific development, with a gift for explaining the wonders of science to non-experts, both young and old. These stories are science-facts, but just as readable as science fiction....
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2016. – 214 p. – ISBN10: 3662528576 Presents state-of-the-art theory and observations on black hole astrophysics Covers all the main topics in the broad field of black hole astrophysics Includes discussions on the goals and the expected results for the next generation of experiments Serves as both a reference work for researchers and a...
Singapore: Springer, 2023. — 504 p. Black holes are one of the most fascinating predictions of general relativity. They are the natural product of the complete gravitational collapse of matter and today we have a body of observational evidence supporting the existence of black holes in the Universe. However, general relativity predicts that at the center of black holes there...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. - 302 p. This book describes the extraordinary ways in which black holes make their presence known. We discuss the designs and accidents through which they were discovered, and how far we have come toward understanding their relationship to other structures in the cosmos. Every advance in technology has disclosed an assortment of...
3rd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 322 p. — ISBN-13 978-1108819053. Richly illustrated with the images from observatories on the ground and in space, and computer simulations, this book shows how black holes were discovered, and discusses what we've learned about their nature and their role in cosmic evolution. This thoroughly updated third edition covers new...
Springer-Verlag New York, 2013. — 54 p. — (Springer Briefs in Astronomy). — ISBN: 978-1-4614-7771-6; 978-1-4614-7770-9. Measuring the spin distribution of supermassive black holes is of critical importance for understanding how these black holes and their host galaxies form and evolve over time, yet this type of study is only in its infancy. This brief describes how astronomers...
Springer, 2025. — 732 p. — ISBN-13 : 978-9819788866 Primordial black holes (PBHs) were proposed more than 50 years ago as black holes possibly formed across a vast mass range in the early universe. They represent a unique probe to access the primordial universe and cosmological inflation. Furthermore, in certain mass ranges, they could comprise the entirety of the dark matter,...
Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. — 331 pp. — (Fundamemtal Theories of Physics 178). — ISBN: 978-3-319-10851-3 (Print) 978-3-319-10852-0 (Online).
Beginning with an overview of the theory of black holes by the editor, this book presents a collection of ten chapters by leading physicists dealing with the variety of quantum mechanical and quantum gravitational...
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 — 104p. — (SpringerBriefs in Physics) — ISBN: 978-3-642-38939-9 (eBook), 978-3-642-38938-2 (Softcover). Written by foremost experts, this short book gives a clear description of the physics of quantum black holes. The reader will learn about quantum black holes in four and higher dimensions, primordial black holes, the production of black...
European Mathematical Society, 2009. – 600 p. – ISBN: 303719068X. In 1965 Penrose introduced the fundamental concept of a trapped surface, on the basis of which he proved a theorem which asserts that a spacetime containing such a surface must come to an end. The presence of a trapped surface implies, moreover, that there is a region of spacetime, the black hole, which is...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. — 404 p. A broad, up to date presentation of all mathematical aspects of the geometry of black hole spacetimes Detailed analysis of the geometry of several key black hole metrics A thorough introduction to the key facts and notions needed for a mathematical treatment of the problem of classification of stationary black holes
Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. — 273 pp. — (Astrophysics and Space Science Library 414). — ISBN: 978-3-319-10355-6 (Print) 978-3-319-10356-3 (Online).
This book reviews the phenomenology displayed by relativistic jets as well as the most recent theoretical efforts to understand the physical mechanisms at their origin. Relativistic jets have been observed...
Singapore: Imperial College Press. – 2005. – 306 p. The intention of this book is to provide the reader with a concise summary of some central aspects of the rapidly developing field of Galactic Center research. In chapters one and two we review a selection of fundamental instrumental techniques and observational results that are relevant for the Galactic Center. It covers the...
Springer Science+Business Media, New York, 2014, 492 pages, ISBN: 1493922262 Space Sciences Series of ISSI Provides a comprehensive summary on the physical models and current theory of black hole accretion, growth and mergers, in both the supermassive and stellar-mass cases. This title reviews in-depth research on accretion on all scales, from galactic binaries to intermediate...
CRC Press, 2002. — 353 p. — (Series in High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation). — ISBN-13: 978-0750308373. The supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way is the nearest such object and relatively easy to observe and study. Not surprisingly therefore, it is the best studied supermassive black hole. Many astrophysical and even general relativistic effects can...
OxUn Press, 2011. – 505 p. – ISBN: 0199692297 This book is about black holes, one of the most intriguing objects of modern Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics. For many years, black holes have been considered as interesting solutions of the theory of General Relativity with a number of amusing mathematical properties. Now after the discovery of astrophysical black holes, the...
Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland, 2016. – 106 p. – ISBN10: 3319300652 This book introduces an analytic method to describe the shadow of black holes. As an introduction, it presents a survey of the attempts to observe the shadow of galactic black holes. Based on a detailed discussion of the Plebański–Demiański class of space-times, the book derives analytical...
Springer, 2022. — 430 p. — (Graduate Texts in Physics). — ISBN 3031103424. This textbook gradually introduces the reader to several topics related to black hole physics with a didactic approach. It starts with the most basic black hole solution, the Schwarzschild metric, and discusses the basic classical properties of black hole solutions as seen by different probes. Then it...
Springer International Publishing, 2016. — 314 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 905). — ISBN: 978-3-319-19416-5 (eBook), 978-3-319-19415-8 (Softcover). Based on graduate schoollectures in contemporary relativity and gravitational physics, this bookgives a complete and unified picture of the present status of theoretical and observational properties of astrophysical black holes....
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2013. — 265 p. — ISBN: 9814425699. Black holes, once just fascinating theoretical predictions of how gravity warps space-time according to Einstein's theory, are now generally accepted as astrophysical realities, formed by post-supernova collapse, or as supermassive black holes mysteriously found at the cores of most...
Institute for Theoretical Physics University of Utrecht, 1996. — 38 pages. These notes are based on five lectures given at the University of Utrecht in early 1996. My intention was to introduce the subject of black hole thermodynamics starting at the beginning, at a level suitable for anyone with a passing acquaintance with general relativity and quantum field theory. Although...
Springer, 2016. – 257 p. – ISBN: 3319313517 These lecture notes are dedicated to the most recent theoretical applications of Black Hole solutions in high-energy physics. The main motivation of this volume is to present the latest black hole backgrounds that are relevant for gauge/gravity correspondence. Leading scientists in the field explain effective techniques for finding...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 326 p. 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...
Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. — 148 p. — (Springer Theses). — ISBN: 978-3-319-09539-4; 978-3-319-09540-0. The work developed in this thesis addresses very important and relevant issues of accretion processes around black holes. Beginning by studying the time variation of the evolution of inviscid accretion discs around black holes and their properties, the...
Minneapolis, USA: Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.,| 2018. — 124 p. — ISBN10: 1512415685. In 2015 two powerful telescopes detected something physicists had been seeking for more than one hundred years-gravitational waves from the collision of two black holes. This announcement thrilled the scientific community. Since the eighteenth century, astronomers have predicted the existence...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 333 p. — (Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium Series, No 21). 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...
Springer, 2019. — 115 p. — (Springer Briefs in Physics). — ISBN: 978-3-030-10918-9. Based on Prof. Lüst's Masters course at the University of Munich, this book begins with a short introduction to general relativity. It then presents black hole solutions, and discusses Penrose diagrams, black hole thermodynamics and entropy, the Unruh effect, Hawking radiation, the black hole...
Springer, 2015. - 97 pp. This book reflects the resurgence of interest in the quantum properties of black holes, culminating most recently in controversial discussions about firewalls. On the thermodynamic side, it describes how new developments allowed the inclusion of pressure/volume terms in the first law, leading to a new understanding of black holes as chemical systems,...
Springer, 2012. - 927 pp. As a result of significant research over the past 20 years, black holes are now linked to some of the most spectacular and exciting phenomena in the Universe, ranging in size from those that have the same mass as stars to the super-massive objects that lie at the heart of most galaxies, including our own Milky Way. This book first introduces the...
Нардо Д. «Чёрные дыры» 2004 г. , 96 стр., на английском языке.
The remains of collapsed stars, black holes possess enormous gravities that pull in and annihilate any matter that strays too close. The latest evidence and theories for these bizarre objects are presented in this intriguing book, including how black holes were first predicted, how they form, their physical...
Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. — 250 p. Preface Introduction Static Vacuum Black Hole Solutions Stationary Vacuum Black Hole Solutions Solution Generation Methods I Solution Generation Methods II Classification and Uniqueness of Black Hole Solutions in Vacuum Moduli Space of Stationary Axisymmetric Vacuum Solutions Einstein-Maxwell Black Hole Solutions Classification and...
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2016 — 222p. — (Springer Theses) — ISBN: 978-3-662-48270-4 (eBook), 978-3-662-48269-8 (Hardcover). This thesis focuses on the recent firewall controversy surrounding evaporating black holes, and shows that in the best understood example concerning electrically charged black holes with a flat event horizon in anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime, the...
Springer, 2009. — 511 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 769). — ISBN: 978-3-540-88460-6, 978-3-642-10012-3, 978-3-540-88459-0. Black Holes are still considered to be among the most mysterious and fascinating objects in our universe. Awaiting the era of gravitational astronomy, much progress in theoretical modeling and understanding of classical and quantum black holes has already...
2nd Edition, Springer, 2008, 399 pages, ISBN: 3540769552 Black hole gravitohydromagnetics (GHM) is developed from the rudiments to the frontiers of research in this book. GHM describes plasma interactions that combine the effects of gravity and a strong magnetic field, in the vicinity (ergosphere) of a rapidly rotating black hole. This topic was created in response to the...
Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., 2017. — 52 p. — ISBN: 9781512425864. Black holes are one of the greatest mysteries of outer space. No visible light can escape the strong gravity of a black hole. This makes black holes invisible-and very difficult to study. But scientists make new discoveries and develop new theories about these mysterious objects every day. In 2015, astronomers...
Springer, 2014. - 318 pp. This book is based on the lecture notes of a one-semester course on black hole astrophysics given by Gustavo E. Romero and is aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in astrophysics. The material included goes beyond that found in classic textbooks and presents details on astrophysical manifestations of black holes. In...
Elsevier, 2024. — 891 p. Black Holes in the Era of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy provides a multidisciplinary, up-to-date view of the physics of black holes, along with an exhaustive overview of crucial open questions and recent advancements in the astrophysics of black holes in the wake of incredible advancements made in the last decade. It includes discussions on improvements...
Springer, 2018. — 437 p. — ISBN-13 978-3030065676 This book highlights selected topics of standard and modern theory of accretion onto black holes and magnetized neutron stars. The structure of stationary standard discs and non-stationary viscous processes in accretion discs are discussed to the highest degree of accuracy analytic theory can provide, including relativistic...
Springer International Publishing, 2015. — 154 p. — (Springer Theses). — ISBN: 978-3-319-12676-0 (eBook), 978-3-319-12675-3 (Hardcover). This book provides a general introduction to the rapidly developing astrophysical frontier of stellar tidal disruption, but also details original thesis research on the subject. This work has shown that recoiling black holes can disrupt stars...
Springer, 2020. - 92 p. - (SpringerBriefs in Physics). - ISBN: 3030451089. This is the written version of three lectures on complexity and black holes given at PiTP 2018 summer program entitled “From Qubits to Spacetime" . These three lectures cover a certain aspect of complexity and black holes, namely the relation to the second law of thermodynamics . The first lecture...
Lecture notes — DAMTP, University of Cambridge, 1997. — 145 р.
These notes were written to accompany a course taught in Part III of the Cambridge University Mathematical Tripos. There are occasional references to questions on four ’example sheets’, which can be found in the Appendix. The writing of these course notes has greatly benefitted from discussions
with Gary Gibbons and...
Chicago: Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics University of Chicago, 2000. — 46 p.
We review the present status of black hole thermodynamics. Our review includes discussion of classical black hole thermodynamics, Hawking radiation from black holes, the generalized second law, and the issue of entropy bounds. A brief survey also is given of approaches to the...
М.: Изд-во МГУ, 1986. — 288 с. Монография посвящена математическим аспектам физики черных дыр. Особое внимание уделяется проблемам разделения переменных и построения решений уравнений для безмассовых и массивных полей различного спина в пространствах Шварцшильда и Керра, теории потенциалов Дебая и функций Грина; исследуется спонтанное и вынужденное излучение частиц, движущихся...
М.: Наука, Гл. ред. физ.-мат. лит., 1986. — 328 с.
Излагается современное состояние проблемы физики черных дыр - объектов, возникающих в результате катастрофического сжатия небесных тел. Авторы охватывают все аспекты проблемы - от теории пространства-времени самих черных дыр, механики движения тел, распространения полей в их окрестности до физических процессов в них, свойств...
Мн.: Университетское, 1991. — 174 с.: ил. — (Необычное в обычном).
Это рассказ о самых удивительных объектах во Вселенной — 6елых и черных дырах. Куда ведут кротовые норы, находящиеся за горизонтом событий черных дыр? Ждет ли Вселенную тепловая смерть? Являются ли белые дыры вестниками других Миров? Что является источником энергии грандиозных космических взрывов и...
М.: Мир, 1978. — 324 с. — (Новости фундаментальной физики). Сборник содержит статьи крупных зарубежных ученых по классической и квантовой физике черных дыр, опубликованные в 1975-1977 гг. Статьи посвящены вопросам, связанным с квантовыми процессами вблизи черных дыр, термодинамикой и возможными астрофизическими проявлениями черных дыр. Вступительная статья - краткий обзор...
Пер. с англ. к.ф.-м. н. В.А. Березина, Под ред. д.ф.-м.н. Д.А. Гальцова. — М.: Мир, 1986. — 276 с.: ил. Книга известного американского астрофизика-теоретика и математика, лауреата Нобелевской премии по физике посвящена проблемам теории черных дыр. Она содержит математически строгое исследование решений Шварцшильда, Рейсснера—Нордстрема и Керра, включая анализ возмущений...
Пер. с англ. к.ф.-м. н. В.А. Березина, Под ред. д.ф.-м.н. Д.А. Гальцова. — ММ.: Мир, 1986. — 335 с.: ил. Книга известного американского астрофизика-теоретика и математика, лауреата Нобелевской премии по физике посвящена проблемам теории черных дыр. Она содержит математически строгое исследование решений Шварцшильда, Рейсснера—Нордстрема и Керра, включая анализ возмущений...
М.: БИНОМ. Лаборатория знаний, 2014. — 265 с. Книга посвящена актуальным проблемам современной астрофизики. Особое внимание уделяется сверхмассивным черным дырам, которые как невидимые монстры возможно поглощают все, что к ним приближается. Автор (директор астробиологической обсерватории при Колумбийском университете в Нью-Йорке, непосредственно участвовавший в исследованиях...
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