Contact
|
Los Alamos Science No. 13, Spring 1986
Astrophysics
| LANL has long been a home to astrophysics research because the physical phenomena key to the performance of nuclear weapons-thermonuclear fusion, implosion and explosion, shock waves, hot plasmas, and materials under extreme temperatures and pressures- are also key to the dynamics of astronomical objects. This issue on astrophysics centers on the accretion of matter onto very dense stars and black holes and the interpretation of x-ray signals emitted during that process. Also discussed is an unsolved puzzle: how does matter held up by its circular motion around a central dense star or black hole lose that angular momentum and ultimately submit to the pull of gravity? |
|
Latest Issue
Recent Issues
|
