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Black Holes: New Horizons (Hardcover)
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Black Holes: New Horizons (Hardcover)
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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 galaxies, powering active
galactic nuclei, the most powerful objects in the universe.
Theoretical understanding has progressed in recent decades with a
wider realization that local concepts should characterize black
holes, rather than the global concepts found in textbooks. In
particular, notions such as trapping horizon allow physically
meaningful quantities and equations, describing how a black hole
evolves. This has led to discoveries in fields as diverse as
classical and numerical general relativity, differential geometry,
thermodynamics, quantum field theory, and quantum gravity. There is
heretofore no one volume which covers all the main aspects, so this
volume collects together summaries and recent research, each
chapter written by an expert or experts in a given field. This is
intended for readers at a graduate level upwards, who wish to learn
about the wide range of research concerning black holes.
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