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Black holes in astrophysics

Ramesh Narayan • New Journal of Physics (2005)

This paper reviews the current status of black hole (BH) astrophysics, focusing on topics of interest to a physics audience. Astronomers have discovered dozens of compact objects with masses greater than 3 M ⊙ , the likely maximum mass of a...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/199

Accretion Power in Astrophysics

Juhan Frank, Andrew R. King, Derek Jeffrey Raine • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2002)

Accretion Power in Astrophysics examines accretion as a source of energy in both binary star systems containing compact objects, and in active galactic nuclei. Assuming a basic knowledge of physics, the authors describe the physical process...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139164245