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Black holes : the membrane paradigm / edited by Kip S. Thorne, Richard H. Price, Douglas A. Macdonald.
LIBRA QB843.B55 B59 1986
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black holes (Astronomy).
- Astrophysics.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 367 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Membrane paradigm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [1986]
- Summary:
- A pedagogical introduction to the physics of black holes. The membrane paradigm represents the four-dimemnsional spacetime of the black hole's "event horizon" as a two-dimensional membrane in three-dimensional space, allowing the reader to understand and compute the behavior of black holes in complex astrophysical environments.
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography: pages 341-347.
- ISBN:
- 0300037694
- 0300037708
- OCLC:
- 13759977
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