Black Hole Gravitohydromagnetics

Black Hole Gravitohydromagnetics
ISBN-10
3662044099
ISBN-13
9783662044094
Category
Science
Pages
402
Language
English
Published
2013-03-09
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Author
Brian Punsly

Description

A new branch of physics, black hole gravitohydromagnetics (GHM) is developed from the rudiments to the frontiers of research. 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.

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