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SUMMARY:Astrophysics Colloquium: Omer M. Blaes\, Univ. of California-Sant
 a Barbara\, Dept. of Physics:  "Recent Breakthroughs in the Physics of L
 uminous Black Hole Accretion"
CREATED:20100720T110000Z
DESCRIPTION:Accretion onto black holes is responsible for some of the mos
 t energetically spectacular phenomena in the universe\, from gamma-ray b
 ursts to quasars.  Unfortunately\, despite tremendous progress on the ob
 servational side\, our theoretical understanding of the nature of the ac
 cretion flow close to the black hole has been hampered by fundamental un
 certainties that have stymied progress in the field for decades.  Thanks
  to new physical insights and increasingly sophisticated numerical simul
 ations that are capable of treating more and more of the physics\, the s
 ituation is changing rapidly for the better.  I will review some of the 
 theoretical breakthroughs related to radiation pressure dominated flows 
 that are relevant to the brightest sources\, and describe new ideas that
  these results have generated that might help explain observations of X-
 ray binaries.
LAST-MODIFIED:20100901T110000Z
LOCATION:134 Astronomy
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
CONTACT:333-5535
ORGANIZER:yhchu@astro.illinois.edu
URL:http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/650?key=2000010120000101175105
UID:175105@illinois.edu
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