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astro-ph1998
Advection-Dominated Accretion around Black Holes
Ramesh Narayan, Rohan Mahadevan, Eliot Quataert
This article reviews the physics of advection-dominated accretion flows (ADAFs) and describes applications to several black hole X-ray binaries and galactic nuclei. The possibility…
astro-ph1997
Astrophysical Evidence for Black Hole Event Horizons
K. Menou, E. Quataert, R. Narayan
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 n…