Foreword Introduction Acknowledgements Notation 1. Superluminal motion in the quasar 3C273 2. Curved spacetime and SgrA* 3. Parallel transport and isometry of tangent bundles 4. Maxwell's equations 5. Riemannian curvature 6. Gravitational radiation 7. Cosmological event rates 8. Compressible fluid dynamics 9. Waves in relativistic magnetohydrodynamics 10. Nonaxisymmetric waves in a torus 11. Phenomenology of GRB supernovae 12. Kerr black holes 13. Luminous black holes 14. A luminous torus in gravitational radiation 15. GRB supernovae from rotating black holes 16. Observational opportunities for LIGO and VIRGO 17. Epilogue: GRB/XRF singlets, doublets? Triplets! Appendices References Index.
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