Class 9

Notes index

Class 7

Origin of the Universe - Class 8

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Review by Erin Gray

The event horizon and the singularity.
Black holes hide their contents to an outside observer, but are very chaotic inside.
The exclusion principle. See the Presentation Speech of the 1945 Nobel Prize to Pauli
Biographies of Chandrasekhar: Mc Tutor at St. Andrews, Eric's treasure troves, 1983 Nobel Prize.
Does time come to an end inside a black hole?
Black hole collisions and growth. Spinning black holes.
Detecting black holes: tight orbits, X-ray emissions, gamma-ray bursts, gravitational lensing.
M87
Jets, searchlights, x-ray bursts.