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Old/Past/Ancient/Historic Frontiers in Black Hole Astrophysics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2017

Virginia Trimble
Virginia Trimble*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Irvine CA 92697 and Queen Jadwiga Observatory, Rzepiennik, Poland email: vtrimble@astro.umd.edu
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Basic questions about black holes, some of which are fairly old, include (1) What is a black hole? (2) Do black holes exist? And the answer to this depends a good deal on the answer to (1), (3) Where, when, why, and how have they formed? and (4) What are they good for? Here I attempt some elaboration of the questions and partial answers, noting that general relativity is required to described some of the phenomena, while dear old Isaac Newton is OK for others.

Keywords

black holegeneral relativityhorizongravitational redshiftbinary starsquasarsgamma-ray burstsgravitational radiationadvectionsingularity
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Contributed Papers
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 12 , Symposium S324: New Frontiers in Black Hole Astrophysics , September 2016 , pp. 1 - 7
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2017 

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