Edge of Infinity Supermassive Black Holes in the Universe

Name: Edge of Infinity Supermassive Black Holes in the Universe
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ISBN: 9780521814058

ISBN-10: 0521814057

ISBN-13: 9780521814058

Edition: 2003

Authors: Fulvio Melia

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This timely book is suitable for the general reader wishing to find answers to some of the intriguing questions now being asked about black holes. Although once recognized as the most destructive force in nature, following a cascade of astonishing discoveries, the opinion of supermassive black holes has undergone a dramatic shift. Astronomers are discovering that these objects may have been critical to the formation of structure in the early universe, spawning bursts of star formation, planets, and even life itself. Fulvio Melia is Associate Head of Physics and Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. He is author of Electrodynamics (University of Chicago, 2001), and a…

Book details

List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/4/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 158
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.29" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Preface



The most powerful objects in the universe



Beacons at the edge of reality



The host galaxies of quasars



The active nuclei of "normal" galaxies



Weighing supermassive objects



Accretion of plasma



Deciphering the signal from the infalling gas



The center of our galaxy



The black hole spacetime



The inexorable force of gravity



Unseen dimensions



Matter's futile resistance to total collapse



The black hole spacetime



Rotating black holes



Formation of supermassive black holes



Primordial seeds



Galaxy types



The supermassive black hole census



Galaxy collisions



Collision of Andromeda with the Milky Way



Middleweight black holes



Relativistic ejection of plasma



Imaging supermassive black holes



Jets from supermassive black holes



Faster than light motion



Supermassive black holes in the universe



The Hubble Deep Field



The Chandra Deep Field



The universe aglow



Future directions



Is the universe itself a big black hole?



Ultimate fate


References


Index