Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Black holes
2: Dynamics of a black hole in a background universe
3: Interaction of two black-holes in the slow-motion limit
4: Gravitational radiation from high-speed black-hole encounters
5: Axisymmetric black-hole collisions at speed of light; perturbation treatment of gravitational radiation
6: Axisymmetric black-hole collisions at the speed of light: reduction in two independent variables and calculation of the second-order news function
7: Axisymmetric black-hole collisions at the speed of light: gravitational radiation - results and conclusions
8: Conclusion
References

Reviews

`The book is a good textbook for students who wish to study the technique of describing the interaction of two black holes. The researcher finds excellent guidance for further work.'
Zentralblatt f"r Mathematik