Jason Kendall's Intro to Astronomy Course
Adjunct faculty in Physics at William Paterson University
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Module 11: Black Holes and Gravitational Waves
01: Black Holes
Video References
References for Module 11: Black Holes and Gravitational Waves
Supplement the videos with "OpenStax Astronomy"
23: The Death of Stars
24: Black Holes and Curved Spacetime
01: Black Holes
Black Holes are the ultimate triumph of gravity over matter. The most mysterious objects in the cosmos, as they do not reveal their innards to any probe.
John Michell
Karl Schwarzschild
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Hartland Snyder
Escape Speed
"On Continued Gravitational Contraction"
Equivalence principle
Schwarzschild metric
Satellites orbiting around a massive body
Gravitational Redshift
Gravitational time dilation
Spaghettification
Gravitational lensing
Hubble sees gravitationally lensed galaxies
Dr. Andrew Hamilton's website about black holes
"The river model of black holes"
Cygnus X-1
NASA's view of Cygnus X-1
X-ray binary
List of known black holes
Interstellar and Gargantua
Milky Way Supermassive Black Hole
Hawking radiation
Converting mass to length