Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy of Astrophysical Plasmas (Steven M. Kahn): Classical and Quantum Radiation Theory -- The Structure of Multi-Electron Atoms -- Electron-Ion Collisional Processes -- Discrete Line Diagnostics -- Concluding Remarks -- Instruments for Nuclear Astrophysics (Peter von Ballmoos): Introduction -- Interaction of High-Energy Photons with Matter -- Detectors -- The Instruments for …
First Supermassive Black Holes and Structure Formation -- Observations of Supermassive Black Holes at Higher Redshift -- Observations of Super Massive Black Holes in the Local Universe -- The Case of Sagittarius A* -- Interaction of Supermassive Black Holes with Their Environment -- Physics of Accretion Discs Around Supermassive Black Holes -- Black Hole–Black Hole Mergers and Gravitational W…