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Black-Hole Phenomenology by Neven Bilic

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Black-Hole Phenomenology
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Publisher: arXiv
Number of pages: 58

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This set of lectures is an introduction to black-hole astrophysics. The emphasis is made on the phenomenology of X-ray binaries and of supermassive compact objects at galactic centers. Notes to the lectures given at the School on Particle Physics, Gravity and Cosmology.

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