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Event Horizon Evidence from X-Ray Binaries

India · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1997

Ramesh Narayan1997

Science / Astrophysics

Uses the low luminosity of quiescent black hole binaries compared with neutron-star systems to argue for the observational presence of event horizons.

Names involved

Ramesh Narayan

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