This pedagogical introduction to the physics of black holes
emphasizes the "membrane paradigm", which translates the
mathematics and physics of black holes into a form accessible to
readers with little knowledge of general relativity but a solid
grounding in nonrelativistic physics. This is accomplished without
resort to approximations or loss of content. Instead of treating a
black hole's "event horizon" as a globally defined null surface in
four-dimensional space time, the paradigm views it as a
two-dimensional membrane in three-dimensional space. Made of
viscous fluid, electrically charged and conducting, with finite
entropy and temperature but no power to conduct heat, this membrane
is seen as having familiar properties that enable the reader to
understand intuitively and compute quantitatively the behavior of
black holes in complex astrophysical environments.
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