Dynamics of black holes
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This is a review of current theory of black-hole dynamics, concentrating on the framework in terms of trapping horizons. Summaries are given of the history, the classical theory of black holes, the defining ideas of dynamical black holes, the basic laws, conservation laws for energy and angular momentum, other physical quantities and the limit of local equilibrium. Some new material concerns how processes such as black-hole evaporation and coalescence might be described by a single trapping horizon which manifests temporally as separate horizons.
10 REVTeX pages, 5 eps figures, invited review for Adv. Sci. Lett. Two signs corrected
10 REVTeX pages, 5 eps figures, invited review for Adv. Sci. Lett. Two signs corrected