Black Holes

Black Holes is an astrophysical object class, defined in general relativity as regions of spacetime in which gravity is so strong that nothing—not even light—can escape from within a boundary known as the event horizon.

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Astronomy EducationAstrophysicsExtragalactic AstronomyGravitationRelativity

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Publications

35.3K

Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters · 2016 · 14.3K citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Astronomy, Physics +15

Anti de Sitter space and holography

Edward Witten · Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics · 1998 · 13.3K citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Physics, Cosmology +14

Particle creation by black holes

S. W. Hawking · Communications in Mathematical Physics · 1975 · 12.9K citations

Natural Sciences, Physics, Astrophysics +13

Black Holes and Entropy

Jacob D. Bekenstein · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields · 1973 · 7.3K citations

Natural Sciences, Physics, Information Theory +15

Electromagnetic extraction of energy from Kerr black holes

R. D. Blandford, R. L. Znajek · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1977 · 5.1K citations

Natural Sciences, Physics, Electromagnetics +15

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58K

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Vítor Cardoso
University of Lisbon, Portugal
218 publications · 27.6K citations
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Ramesh Narayan
Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, United States
157 publications · 40.8K citations
89
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Emanuele Berti
University of Mississippi, United States
173 publications · 24K citations
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S. Husa
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Germany
129 publications · 52.7K citations
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AC
A. C. Fabian
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
179 publications · 20.6K citations
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The Astrophysical Journal
ApJ · 3.8K publications · 388.8K citations
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
3.1K publications · 250.7K citations
210
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Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields
1.7K publications · 202.5K citations
205
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Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology
2.8K publications · 212.5K citations
199
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Physical Review Letters
PRL · 968 publications · 183.8K citations
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