Astrophysical Evidence for Black Hole Event Horizons

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1998-03-16

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9803057v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

LateX, 23 pages, 7 figures, uses crckapb.sty. To appear in the Proceedings of the GR15 meeting, eds. N K Dadhich & J V Narlika

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Astronomers have discovered many potential black holes in X-ray binaries and galactic nuclei. These black holes are usually identified by the fact that they are too massive to be neutron stars. Until recently, however, there was no convincing evidence that the objects identified as black hole candidates actually have event horizons. This has changed with extensive applications of a class of accretion models for describing the flow of gas onto compact objects; for these solutions, called advection-dominated accretion flows (ADAFs), the black hole nature of the accreting star, specifically its event horizon, plays an important role. We review the evidence that, at low luminosities, accreting black holes in both X-ray binaries and galactic nuclei contain ADAFs rather than the standard thin accretion disk.

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