From X-ray Binaries to Quasars: Black Holes on All Mass Scales

Download or read book From X-ray Binaries to Quasars: Black Holes on All Mass Scales written by Thomas J. Maccarone and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-01-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together contributions from many of the world's leading authorities on black hole accretion. The papers within represent part of a new movement to make use of the relative advantages of studying stellar mass and supermassive black holes, and to bring together the knowledge gained from the two approaches. The topics discussed include black hole observational and theoretical work-variability, spectroscopy, disk-jet connections, and multi-wavelength campaigns on black holes.