Macroquasars: Supermassive Black Holes in the Centers of Galaxies

Abstract

Once recognized as a black hole system, the process of cataloging, classifying, explaining, and unifying like systems can begin. The next few chapters describe several different varieties of black hole systems. Also discussed are several different criteria for explaining why these systems appear the way they do to observers and for unifying them with other types of black hole system. Ultimately, we shall see that all black hole systems (including the small ones in our own Galaxy) are fundamentally the same. They differ only in the mass of their central black hole, how fast it is rotating, how fast it consumes fuel, the angle at which we view it (relative to the hole’s spin axis), and the nature of the environment in which the black hole resides.