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Exercises

Scientific papers

  • Schödel, R., Ott, T., Genzel, R., Eckart, A., Mouawad, N., & Alexander, T. 2003, Astrophysical Journal, 596, 1015
  • Schödel, R., et al., 2002, Nature, 419, 694

A few starting points on the web

  • http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr- 2002/pr-17-02.html
  • http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/capture/ blackholes/
  • http://hubblesite.org/discoveries/black_ holes/
  • http://www.phys.vt.edu/~jhs/faq/blackholes. html

Books

  • Igor Novikov, “Black Holes and the Universe”, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Stephen Hawking, “A Brief History of Time”, Bantam Books, Toronto, New York
  • Mitch Begelman & Martin Rees, “Gravity’s Fatal Attraction : Black Holes in the Universe”, Scientific American Library Series, W. H. Freeman
  • Kip Thorne, “Black Holes & Time Warps”, Norton, New York, London