Unique, comprehensive overview for researchers and graduate students in observational and theoretical astrophysics, general relativity, and high-energy physics.
Unique, comprehensive overview for researchers and graduate students in observational and theoretical astrophysics, general relativity, and high-energy physics.
List of illustrations Contributors Foreword Part I. General Relativity: Classical Studies of the Kerr Geometry: 1. The Kerr spacetime: a brief introduction Matt Visser 2. The Kerr and Kerr-Schild metrics Roy P. Kerr 3. Roy Kerr and twistor theory Roger Penrose 4. Global and local problems solved by the Kerr metric Brandon Carter 5. Four decades of black hole uniqueness theorems David C. Robinson 6. Ray-traced visualisations Benjamin R. Lewis, Susan M. Scott Part II. Astrophysics: The Ongoing Observational Revolution: 7. The ergosphere and dyadosphere of the Kerr black hole Remo Ruffini 8. Supermassive Black Holes Fulvio Melia 9. The X-ray spectra of accreting Kerr black holes Andrew C. Fabian, Giovanni Miniutti 10. Cosmological flashes from rotating black holes Maurice H.P.M. van Putten Part III. Quantum Gravity: Rotating Black Holes at the Theoretical Frontiers: 11. Horizon constraints and black hole entropy Steve Carlip 12. Higher dimensional generalizations of the Kerr black hole Gary T. Horowitz Part IV. Appendices: 13. Gravitational field of a spinning mass ... Roy P. Kerr 14. Gravitational collapse and rotation Roy P. Kerr Index.
List of illustrations Contributors Foreword Part I. General Relativity: Classical Studies of the Kerr Geometry: 1. The Kerr spacetime: a brief introduction Matt Visser 2. The Kerr and Kerr-Schild metrics Roy P. Kerr 3. Roy Kerr and twistor theory Roger Penrose 4. Global and local problems solved by the Kerr metric Brandon Carter 5. Four decades of black hole uniqueness theorems David C. Robinson 6. Ray-traced visualisations Benjamin R. Lewis, Susan M. Scott Part II. Astrophysics: The Ongoing Observational Revolution: 7. The ergosphere and dyadosphere of the Kerr black hole Remo Ruffini 8. Supermassive Black Holes Fulvio Melia 9. The X-ray spectra of accreting Kerr black holes Andrew C. Fabian, Giovanni Miniutti 10. Cosmological flashes from rotating black holes Maurice H.P.M. van Putten Part III. Quantum Gravity: Rotating Black Holes at the Theoretical Frontiers: 11. Horizon constraints and black hole entropy Steve Carlip 12. Higher dimensional generalizations of the Kerr black hole Gary T. Horowitz Part IV. Appendices: 13. Gravitational field of a spinning mass ... Roy P. Kerr 14. Gravitational collapse and rotation Roy P. Kerr Index.
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