Description
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 (ergosphere) of a rapidly rotating black hole. This topic was created in response to the astrophysical quest to understand the central engines of radio loud extragalactic radio sources. The theory describes a "torsional tug of war" between rotating ergospheric plasma and the distant asymptotic plasma that extracts the rotational inertia of the black hole. The recoil from the struggle between electromagnetic and gravitational forces near the event horizon is manifested as a powerful pair of magnetized particle beams (jets) that are ejected at nearly the speed of light.
This second edition of the book is updated throughout and contains a completely new chapter discussing state of the art and results of numerical simulations of ergospheric disk jets occurring in magnetohydrodynamic accretion flows.
Author: Brian Punsly
Publisher: Springer
Published: 10/27/2008
Pages: 399
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9783540769552
ISBN10: 3540769552
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Physics | Astrophysics
- Science | Physics | Relativity
- Science | Earth Sciences | Geology