BLACK HOLES:
Portals to the Holy Grail of Theoretical Physics?
| What is Gravity? | |
| What are black holes? | |
| How are black holes “seen”? | |
| Why are black holes are important (at least to theorists)? |
Gravity: Space as a Rubber Sheet:
| A region of space so densely packed with matter that nothing gets out. | |
| A tear in the fabric of space-time hidden below an “event horizon” |
Some Properties of Black Holes:
| We can make them in the lab !? | |
| From the collapse of burn-out stars. | |
| Gravitational collapse at galactic cores. | |
III. How are black holes seen?
Black Hole as a Distorting Lense
Black Hole Detection via Microlensing
Black Holes in Binary Star Systems:
Black Holes in the Center of Galaxies:
Tourist photos of a distant black hole:
The Black Holes at the Center of Our Galaxy:
IV Why are black holes
important?
“Wrong again Albert”-- S. Hawking, Star Trek, ‘93