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Go to slide: 1: How I Got Sucked Into Black Holes 2: Branches of Physics 3: Careers in Physics 4: WHAT IS A BLACK HOLE? 5: Worm Holes 6: How Do Black Holes Form? 7: Observational Evidence for Black Holes 8: Black Holes in Star Systems 9: Black Hole Candidate 10: Black Holes in the Center of Galaxies 11: Why are black holes important? 12: Information Loss 13: Towards “A Unified Theory of Everything”

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I would like to tell you a little bit about what possibilities exist for using a physics degree in your future career, and how I happen to get "sucked into" my own area of physics: Gravity and Black Holes. In the last part of the talk I will try describe some of the properties of black holes, and why they are so important to physicists like myself. I will also explain to you what this wonderful picture (taken by the Hubble Space Telescope) is about.

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