Black Holes: The Membrane Paradigm - Paperback

by Kirk S. Thorne (Author), Douglas A. MacDonald (Editor), Kip S. Thorne (Editor)

A pedagogical introduction to the physics of black holes. The membrane paradigm represents the four-dimemnsional spacetime of the black hole's "event horizon" as a two-dimensional membrane in three-dimensional space, allowing the reader to understand and compute the behavior of black holes in complex astrophysical environments.