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Quarks, Gluons, and the Big Bang

PHYS146

Maurice Barnhill

Class Notes VI. Black Holes and Quasars


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Outline of Hawking Chapter 6
Black Holes

  1. History of the concept of a black hole (pp. 81-82)
  2. Stellar life cycles (pp. 82-87)
    1. White dwarf stars
    2. Chandrasekhar limit
    3. Stars becoming black holes
  3. Singularities involving black holes (pp. 87-89)
    1. Effects of stellar collapse on time
    2. Tidal effects
    3. Singularity theorems
  4. "Black holes have no hair" (pp. 89-92)
    1. Gravitational waves
    2. Simplicity of black holes
    3. Rotating black holes
    4. "No hair" theorem
  5. Evidence for the existance of black holes (pp. 92-96)
    1. Cygnus X-1
    2. Quasars
  6. Primordial black holes (pp. 96-97)

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