Menus for Feeding Black Holes

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 183, Issue 1-4, 2014, Pages 163-187

  Kocsis, Bence ^a   Loeb, Abraham ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion and accretion disks; Black holes; Black hole binaries; Plasmas astrophysical

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; STARS;

ACCRETION AND ACCRETION DISKS; BLACK HOLES; BLACK {HOLE BINARIES; ESCAPE TO INFINITIES; PHYSICAL CONDITIONS; SPACETIME;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 84920259149     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-013-0015-5     Document Type: Review

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