Black Holes

Black Holes

The Membrane Paradigm

by Kip S. Thorne, Richard H. Price, Douglas A. MacDonald

367 pages· ISBN 9780300037708
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A pedagogical introduction to the physics of black holes. The membrane paradigm represents the four-dimensional spacetime of the black hole's "event horizon" as a two-dimensional membrane in three-dimensional space, allowing the reader to understand and compute the behavior of black holes in complex astrophysical environments.

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