Growing Black Holes: Accretion in a Cosmological Context Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference Held at Garching, Germany, 21-25 June 2004 /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Merloni, Andrea (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Nayakshin, Sergei (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Sunyaev, Rashid A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Σειρά: ESO Astrophysics Symposia,
• Θέματα: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

Supermassive black holes are now believed to play an important role in the evolution of the Universe. Every respectable galaxy hosts in its center a black hole that appears to regulate the growth of the galaxy itself. In this book, leading experts in the field review the most recent theoretical and...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• First Supermassive Black Holes and Structure Formation
• Observations of Supermassive Black Holes at Higher Redshift
• Observations of Super Massive Black Holes in the Local Universe
• The Case of Sagittarius A*
• Interaction of Supermassive Black Holes with Their Environment
• Physics of Accretion Discs Around Supermassive Black Holes
• Black Hole–Black Hole Mergers and Gravitational Waves
• Jeds, Outflows and QSO Feedback
• The Cosmological Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei and the X-Ray Background.