Astronomy 210
Lecture 37, Nov 29
Fall 2010
Lecture Notes:
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Black Holes
Size and recipe
Black holes from afar, near, and
inside
Black hole
inspiral
and
collisions
Evidence for Black Holes
X-ray
binaries
:
Cygnus X-1
Milky Way center:
Radio
overview
The power of
adaptive optics
Stellar orbits:
Munich group
,
UCLA group
possibly related: gamma-ray
bubbles
other galaxies
active galaxies:
M87
; AGN
gallery
gravitationally lensed quasar: the
Einstein cross
quasar and
host galaxies
supermassive black holes
black holes and galaxies somehow
know about each other
an important clue?
a binary supermassive black hole pair!
Gravitational radiation
Hulse & Taylor's
award-winning
binary pulsar
gravity-wave observatories:
LIGO
(operational) and
LISA
(future)
Lecture Archive
Brian D. Fields
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