Black Hole Gravitohydromagnetics
A new branch of physics, black hole gravitohydromagnetics (GHM) is developed from the rudiments to the frontiers of research in this book. GHM describes plasma interactions that combine the effects of gravity and a strong magnetic field, in the vicinity (
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This image is an overlay of the radio (red) and optical (blue) emission that shows jets of magnetized relativistic plasma emerging from the center of the elliptical galaxy in the radio source 3C 31. This picture was generously provided by Alan Bridle.
Brian Punsly
Black Hole Gravitohydromagnetics With 80 Figures Inc1uding 7 Color Figures
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Cover pieture: The hot, turbulent plasma that is distributed in a region over 700,000 light years in extent in the FR TI radio galaxy, 3C 353 (on the cover), is a signature of the violent world of black hole gravitohydromagnetics. The VLA image is provided courtesy of Alan Bridle.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-PublicationData: Punsly, Brian, 1956- ,Black hole gravitohydromagnetics/Brian Punsly. p. cm. - (Astronomy and astrophysics library, ISSN 0941-7834) lnc1udes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-3-662-04411-7 ISBN 978-3-662-04409-4 (eBook) DOI 10.10071978-3-662-04409-4 I. Black holes (Astronomy) 2. Plasma astrophysics. 3. Magnetohydrodynamics. I. Punsly, Brian, 1956- TI. Title. m. Series. QB843.B55 P86 2001 523.8'875-dc21 00-068734
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Preface
Astrophysicists are in the unique position that they have no fundamental field of study of their own, but adapt a variety of basic physical disciplines in a nontr
