Black Hole Physics
By: edited by Venzo Sabbata, Zhenjiu Zhang
Contributors: Zhang, Zhenjiu
Series: NATO ASI Series, Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences -- 364; NATO ASI Series, Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences -- 364
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9789401050678; 9789401124201
Subjects: Physics
Other titles: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute (12th Course of the International School of Cosmology and Gravitation of the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture), Erice, Italy, May 12-22, 1991
Description: The basic subjects and main topics covered by this book are: (1) Physics of Black Holes (classical and quantum); (2) Thermodynamics, entropy and internal dynamics; (3) Creation of particles and evaporation; (4) Mini black holes; (5) Quantum mechanics of black holes in curved spacetime; (6) The role of spin and torsion in the black hole physics; (7) Equilibrium geometry and membrane paradigm; (8) Black hole in string and superstring theory; (9) Strings, quantum gravity and black holes; (10) The problem of singularity; (11) Astrophysics of black holes; (12) Observational evidence of black holes. The book reveals the deep connection between gravitational, quantum and statistical physics and also the importance of black hole behaviour in the very early universe. An important new point discussed concerns the introduction of spin in the physics of black holes, showing its central role when correctly put into the Einstein equations through the geometric concept of torsion, with the new concept of a time-temperature uncertainty relation, minimal time, minimal entropy, quantization of entropy and the connection of black hole with wormholes. Besides theoretical aspects, the reader will also find observational evidence for black holes in active galactic nuclei, in binary X-ray sources and in supernova remnants. The book will thus interest physicists, astronomers, and astrophysicists at different levels of their career who specialize in classical properties, quantum processes, statistical thermodynamics, numerical collapse, observational evidence, general relativity and other related problems.
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