Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Participants
- Preface
- Black holes, entropy, and information
- Gravitational waves from black-hole mergers
- Out-of-this-world physics: Black holes at future colliders
- Black holes in globular clusters
- Evolution of massive black holes
- Supermassive black holes in deep multiwavelength surveys
- Black-hole masses from reverberation mapping
- Black-hole masses from gas dynamics
- Evolution of supermassive black holes
- Black-hole masses of distant quasars
- The accretion history of supermassive black holes
- Strong field gravity and spin of black holes from broad iron lines
- Birth of massive black-hole binaries
- Dynamics around supermassive black holes
- Black-hole formation and growth: Simulations in general relativity
- Estimating the spins of stellar-mass black holes
- Stellar relaxation processes near the Galactic massive black hole
- Tidal disruptions of stars by supermassive black holes
- Where to look for radiatively inefficient accrection flows in low-luminosity AGN
- Making black holes visible: Accretion, radiation, and jets
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 April 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Participants
- Preface
- Black holes, entropy, and information
- Gravitational waves from black-hole mergers
- Out-of-this-world physics: Black holes at future colliders
- Black holes in globular clusters
- Evolution of massive black holes
- Supermassive black holes in deep multiwavelength surveys
- Black-hole masses from reverberation mapping
- Black-hole masses from gas dynamics
- Evolution of supermassive black holes
- Black-hole masses of distant quasars
- The accretion history of supermassive black holes
- Strong field gravity and spin of black holes from broad iron lines
- Birth of massive black-hole binaries
- Dynamics around supermassive black holes
- Black-hole formation and growth: Simulations in general relativity
- Estimating the spins of stellar-mass black holes
- Stellar relaxation processes near the Galactic massive black hole
- Tidal disruptions of stars by supermassive black holes
- Where to look for radiatively inefficient accrection flows in low-luminosity AGN
- Making black holes visible: Accretion, radiation, and jets
Summary
The Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium on Black Holes took place during April 23–26, 2007.
These proceedings represent a part of the invited talks that were presented at the symposium. They cover many aspects of black hole physics and astrophysics, regarding stellar-mass, intermediate-mass, and supermassive black holes. Topics range from black hole entropy and the fate of information to supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies, and from the possibility to produce black holes in collider experiments to the measurements of black hole spins. Since these articles were written by world experts in their respective disciplines, this volume represents an extremely valuable collection for researchers and students alike.
The ST ScI Symposium on Black Holes attempted to capture all the aspects involved in the astrophysics of black holes.
We thank Sharon Toolan of ST ScI for her help in preparing this volume for publication.
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- Black Holes , pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011