Black holes in astrophysics
@article{Narayan2005BlackHI, title={Black holes in astrophysics}, author={R. Narayan}, journal={New Journal of Physics}, year={2005}, volume={7}, pages={199-199} }
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 3M⊙, the likely maximum mass of a neutron star. These objects are identified as BH candidates. Some of the candidates have masses ~5M⊙–20M⊙ and are found in x-ray binaries, while the rest have masses ~106M⊙–109.5M⊙ and are found in galactic nuclei. A variety of methods are being tried to… CONTINUE READING
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