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020			_a9781108488051
040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a523.8875 _bK58s
100			_aKing, Andrew
245			_aSupermassive black holes _cAndrew King
260			_bCambridge University Press _c2023 _aCambridge
300			_axvii, 308p
520			_a 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 analytic and gives in-depth discussions of the underlying physics, including gas dynamics, ideal and non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics, force-free electrodynamics, accretion disc physics, and the properties of the Kerr metric. It stresses aspects where conventional assumptions may be inappropriate and encourages the reader to think critically about current models. This volume will be useful for graduate or Masters courses in astrophysics, and as a handbook for active researchers in the field. eBook formats include colour figures while print formats are greyscale only.
650			_aBlack holes (Astronomy)
650			_aPhysics
942			_cBK
999			_c566740 _d566740