Astronomy 210
Lecture 35, April 18
Spring 2018
Lecture Notes:
pdf file
General Relativity: Relativistic Gravity
Big Al
Principle of Equivalence
an especially nice animation of the
rocket experiment
The first evidence for light bending:
1919 eclipse
, reported to the
Royal Society
and in the
New York Times
More recent evidence on galactic scales:
rings
, galaxy clusters
here
and
here
Black Holes
Size and recipe
Black holes from afar, near, and
inside
Black hole
inspiral
and
collisions
Lecture Archive
Brian D. Fields
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