Ultraluminous X-ray sources
Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are accreting black holes with X-ray luminosities in excess of the Eddington limit for a typical ~10 solar mass Galactic black hole. There is an emerging consensus that most ULXs are probably fairly typical stellar remnant black holes in a new super-Eddington `ultr...
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Durham University
2013
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.586148 |