Supermassive Black Holes

by Andrew King

Written by an international leader in the field, this is a coherent and accessible account of the concepts that are now vital for understanding cutting-edge work on supermassive black holes. These include accretion disc misalignment, disc breaking and tearing, chaotic accretion, the merging of binary supermassive holes, the demographics of supermassive black holes, and the defining effects of feedback on their host galaxies. The treatment is largely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108488056
• ISBN13: 9781108488051
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"