Probing the strong (stationary) gravitational field of accreting black holes with X-ray observations

DOI10.1007/S10701-018-0212-XzbMath1411.83056OpenAlexW2889637214MaRDI QIDQ1735873

Luigi Stella

Publication date: 29 March 2019

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-018-0212-x

zbMATH Keywords

black holesaccretion disksX-ray astronomyprecessionlight bendinginnermost stable circular orbittests of relativistic gravitytheories of gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25)

Cites Work

• Probes and tests of strong-field gravity with observations in the electromagnetic spectrum
• Testing general relativity with pulsar timing

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