General Relativistic Instability Supernovae

This book provides a comprehensive description of advances in the study of general relativistic instability supernovae. These supernovae, if observed, would provide direct evidence of the existence of supermassive stars, thus confirming that massive seed black holes played a crucial role in the assembly of observed high redshift quasars. The book begins with a review of the history of and motivation for the study of supermassive stars. Supermassive stars are most likely to exist in the high...