ASTROPHYSICS, GRAVITATION AND QUANTUM PHYSICS
CONTENTS SPACE-TIME AND GRAVITATION SPACE-TIME TETRADS: ORTHOGONAL UNIT VECTOR FIELDS GRAVITATION FIELD EQUATIONS THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT RELATIVISTIC ACTION MATH NOTE: INVARIANT VOLUME ELEMENT THE CAUCHY PROBLEM THE ENERGY-MOMENTUM OF GRAVITATION 1 10 WEYL TENSOR AND THE ENTROPY OF GRAVITATION 1 11 GRAVITATIONAL WAVES 1 12 ALTERNATIVE THEORIES OF GRAVITATION 1 12 1 SCALAR-TENSOR GRAVITY 1 12 2 GRAVITY WITH EXTRA DIMENSIONS 1 12 3 F (R)-GRAVITY REFERENCES BLACK HOLES DARK STARS: A HISTORICAL NOTE A GENERAL DE?NITION OF BLACK HOLE SCHWARZSCHILD BLACK HOLES SCHWARZSCHILD SOLUTION BIRKHOFF’S THEOREM ORBITS RADIAL MOTION OF PHOTONS CIRCULAR MOTION OF PHOTONS GRAVITATIONAL CAPTURE OTHER COORDINATE SYSTEMS KERR BLACK HOLES PSEUDO-NEWTONIAN POTENTIALS FOR BLACK HOLES REISSNER-NORDSTRÖM BLACK HOLES KERR-NEWMAN BLACK HOLES EINSTEIN-MAXWELL EQUATIONS OTHER BLACK HOLES BORN-INFELD BLACK HOLES REGULAR BLACK HOLES F (R) BLACK HOLES MINI BLACK HOLES BLACK HOLE PHYSICS BLACK HOLE FORMATION STELLAR STRUCTURE STELLAR COLLAPSE SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES INTERMEDIATE-MASS BLACK HOLES BLACK HOLE THERMODYNAMICS QUANTUM EFFECTS IN BLACK HOLES BLACK HOLE MAGNETOSPHERES BACK HOLE INTERIORS SINGULARITIES SINGULARITY THEOREMS ACCRETION ONTO BLACK HOLES INTRODUCTION SPHERICALLY SYMMETRIC ACCRETION THE BONDI SOLUTION THE EDDINGTON LIMIT CYLINDRICAL ACCRETION BONDI-HOYLE-LYTTLETON MODEL RESULTS OF NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS WIND ACCRETION IN BINARY SYSTEMS DISK ACCRETION BASIC EQUATIONS THE RADIATIVE SPECTRUM OF A THIN DISK THE LOCAL STRUCTURE OF THIN DISKS IN THE ?-PRESCRIPTION ACCRETION DISKS IN STRONG GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS SELF-GRAVITATING ACCRETION DISKS ADVECTION-DOMINATED ACCRETION FLOWS THE EQUATIONS OF AN ADAF TWO-TEMPERATURE ADAFS THE RADIATIVE SPECTRUM OF AN ADAF AND ITS APPLICATIONS OTHER RADIATIVELY INEF?CIENT ACCRETION REGIMES NEUTRINO-COOLED ACCRETION FLOWS NOTE ON THE CALCULATION OF A COMPTONIZATION SPECTRUM ACCRETION IN BINARY SYSTEMS: ROCHE LOBE OVER?OW JETS PHENOMENOLOGY THE EQUATIONS OF MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS THE STRUCTURE OF NON-RELATIVISTIC IDEAL MHD JETS COLLIMATION ACCELERATION LAUNCHING RELATIVISTIC MHD JETS THE BLANDFORD-ZNAJEK MECHANISM NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS ARE ASTROPHYSICAL JETS DISK-DRIVEN OR BLACK HOLE-DRIVEN? MORE ON JET DYNAMICS ALTERNATIVE MECHANISMS OF LAUNCHING AND ACCELERATION INSTABILITIES AND INTERACTION WITH THE MEDIUM CONTENT AND RADIATION FROM JETS INTERACTION WITH THE MAGNETIC FIELD INTERACTION WITH RADIATION INTERACTION WITH MATTER ABSORPTION EVIDENCE FOR BLACK HOLES BLACK HOLES IN ACTION X-RAY BINARIES AND MICROQUASARS ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI GAMMA-RAY BURSTS EVIDENCE FOR STELLAR-MASS BLACK HOLES DYNAMICAL ARGUMENTS THE SEARCH FOR THE SIGNATURE OF THE EVENT HORIZON EVIDENCE FOR A SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE AT THE GALACTIC CENTER STELLAR DYNAMICS THE MOTION OF SGR A* THE SIZE OF SGR A* ALTERNATIVES TO THE SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE MODEL EVIDENCE FOR EXTRAGALACTIC SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES STELLAR AND GAS DYNAMICS SCALING RELATIONS FLUORESCENSE X-RAY LINES EVIDENCE FOR INTERMEDIATE-MASS BLACK HOLES ULTRA-LUMINOUS X-RAY SOURCES WHAT COMES NEXT IMAGING THE SHADOW OF A BLACK HOLE PROSPECTS OF DETECTING GRAVITATIONAL WAVES WORMHOLES AND EXOTIC OBJECTS HISTORICAL REMARKS WORMHOLE METRIC DETECTABILITY LENSING BY A POINT NEGATIVE MASS EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX OF THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD OF A NEGATIVE MASS AND THE DE?ECTION ANGLE LENSING GEOMETRY AND LENS EQUATION EINSTEIN RADIUS AND THE FORMATION OF IMAGES MAGNI?CATIONS MICROLENSING EXTENDED SOURCE CLOSED TIME-LIKE CURVES AND TIME TRAVEL THE PRINCIPLE OF SELF-CONSISTENCY CAUSAL LOOPS: SELF-EXISTENT OBJECTS INFORMATION LOOPS AND THE PSC WHITE HOLES TOPOLOGICAL BLACK HOLES GRAVASTARS BLACK HOLES AND COSMOLOGY OVERVIEW OF CURRENT COSMOLOGY THE FIRST MASSIVE BLACK HOLES POPULATION III STELLAR COLLAPSE BLACK HOLES FROM GAS-DYNAMICAL PROCESSES BLACK HOLES BY STELLAR-DYNAMICAL PROCESSES BLACK HOLES AND RE-IONIZATION THE FUTURE OF BLACK HOLES