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29 Questions

How do astronomers detect the spin of the black holes?

Doubt regarding particle dynamics and hydrodynamics in Schwarzschild geometry

How to derive the angular velocity of circular orbits in Kerr geometry?

How many string theories are there?

Is an exact description of accretion flow possible very close to a Schwarzschild black hole?

Effective potential for Kerr geometry

How can a gas be in circular orbit when centrifugal force is dominant in an accretion disk around a black hole?

Importance of speed of sound in astrophysical flows

Can we obtain the Feynman diagrams using infinite series representation of a path integral?

Is only fluid velocity or both fluid velocity and sound speed discontinuous at a shock?

What is the present state of research on quantum networks? [closed]

Some doubts regarding the Paczynsky-Wiita potential for modeling accretion disk around Schwarzschild black holes?

Some doubts regarding the effective potential for Kerr geometry

Physical importance of centrifugal force and Coriolis force in the context of the restricted 3-body problem

Why can't we have trinary or multiple sytems, like binary systems?

Timelike and spacelike projections in General Relativity and associated conservation laws

Angular momentum in relativistic hydrodynamics

Interpretation of critical points (or sonic points) in fluid flows

Maxwell's equation in cylindrical coordinate system [duplicate]

The 'universal speed limit' in the context of quantum gravity [closed]

How can we physically interpret the “boundary layer” at the inner edge of an accretion disk?

What are some good resources to learn accretion processes around black holes?

Null geodesics in the equatorial plane of Schwarzschild geometry

Why do angular velocity deviates from Keplerian value close to a black hole?

Useful resources and softwares for computational astrophysics

Black hole spin measurements

Physical reason behind the origin of shock waves in astrophysics [duplicate]

Free Electron Theory

Why is the value of the speed of light in vacuum exactly the value that it is and is this value true for other universes (if exists) as well? [closed]