Jason Kendall's Intro to Astronomy Course

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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