Black holes

Formation, observation, and the physics at the horizon.

Scope

• The Schwarzschild and Kerr solutions
• Stellar-mass and supermassive black holes
• Accretion disks and relativistic jets
• Gravitational-wave detections
• Event horizon imaging

Notes

Nothing written here yet. Working notes go in Research and Learning Lab; anything that becomes durable is promoted onto this page.

References

To be added as the topic is worked through.