Black holes in binaries and galactic nuclei [electronic resource] : diagnostics, demography, and formation : proceedings of the ESO workshop held at Garching, Germany, 6-8 September 1999, in honour of Riccardo Giacconi / L. Kaper, E.P.J. van den Heuvel, P.A. Woudt (eds.).

The observational evidence for the existence of black holes has grown significantly over recent decades. Stellar-mass black holes are detected as X-ray sources in binary systems, while supermassive black holes, with masses more than a million times the mass of the Sun, lurk in the nuclei of galaxies...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Corporate Author:	European Southern Observatory
Other Authors:	Giacconi, Riccardo, Kaper, Lex, 1966-, Heuvel, Edward Peter Jacobus van den, 1940-, Woudt, P. A. (Patrick A.), 1970-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2001.
Series:	ESO astrophysics symposia (Springer-Verlag)
Subjects:	Black holes (Astronomy) > Congresses. Double stars > Congresses. Galactic nuclei > Congresses. Black holes (Astronomy) Double stars. Galactic nuclei. Conference papers and proceedings.