Black Holes from Stars to Galaxies – Across the Range of Masses
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Author(s): V. Kara and G. Matt (Eds)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521863473
Format: hardback
482pp
Price: £62.00, $110.00
Review Date: 25 October 2007
Review: These are the 51 papers and 80 poster papers from the Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Prague in August 2006. The symposium brought together observers and theoreticians who work in black-hole astrophysics – from the stellar-mass black holes to the supermassive ones that reside in the centres of galaxies, including the Milky Way. Topics include: stellar-mass black holes; the formation and evolution of massive black holes; active galactic nuclei, physical processes near black holes, the galactic centre, ultraluminous z-ray sources; supermassive black holes and their galaxies; and black holes across the mass spectrum.