Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-11-09
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
to appear in "Black Holes: Aspects of Black Hole Physics and Astrophysics", ed. M. Livio and A. M. Koekemoer (Cambridge Univer
Scientific paper
Black holes are popping up all over the place: in compact binary X-ray sources and GRBs, in quasars, AGNs and the cores of all bulge galaxies, in binary black holes and binary black hole-neutron stars, and maybe even in the LHC! Black holes are strong-field objects governed by Einstein's equations of general relativity. Hence general relativistic, numerical simulations of dynamical phenomena involving black holes may help reveal ways in which black holes can form, grow and be detected in the universe. To convey the state-of-the art, we summarize several representative simulations here, including the collapse of a hypermassive neutron star to a black hole following the merger of a binary neutron star, the magnetorotational collapse of a massive star to a black hole, and the formation and growth of supermassive black hole seeds by relativistic MHD accretion in the early universe.
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