Andrew King

Supermassive Black Holes (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108864626
• Artikelnr.: 70913545

Autorenporträt

Andrew King is a professor at the University of Leicester and a visiting professor at Leiden Observatory, and is Long-Term Visitor at the University of Amsterdam. His academic awards include a PPARC Senior Fellowship; Gauss Professor, Göttingen; Professeur Invité, Université Paris VII; a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award; and the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. He is a co-author of Accretion Power in Astrophysics (1985, 1992, 2002) and Astrophysical Flows (2007), and author of Stars: A Very Short Introduction (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Black holes and galaxies
2. Black holes and general relativity
3. Astrophysical gases
4. Disc accretion on to black holes
5. Supermassive black hole growth
6. The black-hole scaling relations
7. SMBH feedback in general
8. Black hole demographics
Problems
References
Index.