Yale: Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics, Lecture 8 (Introduction to Black Holes)

ASTR 160 - Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics

Professor Charles Bailyn

Spring 2007

Source: Yale University, Open Yale Courses

Black holes, escape velocity, Schwarzchild radius.  Birth of a black hole:  star in hydrostatic equilibrium, white dwarf, Chandrasekhar limit, neutron star.

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