Black holes are at the frontier of current astrophysical knowledge.
Trajectory of Light Rays Near a Massive, Collapsing Star …
The Birth of a Black Hole: Creation and Growth of the Event Horizon
Black Hole = Very “Warped” Space-Time
Implosion of a Star to Form a Black Hole
Visualizing a black hole’s distortion of space-time using an “embedding” diagram.
Effect of black hole rotation on the event horizon.
Distortion of background light by the black hole: “gravitational lensing”
The view of the background star field as we now orbit around a black hole….
A normal view of the Smithsonian Institution building in Washington.
What happens if we put a “small” black hole in front of it!
Gravitional lensing by a massive cluster of galaxies: lensing really does happen!
Evolution of stars as a function of their mass…
The interior structure of a massive star.
What happens when the core of a star runs out of nuclear fuel and collapses?
A better view
of Chandrasekhar …
Black Holes aren’t really black…
“Laser Interferometry Gravitational Observatory”
LISA – A space-based version of LIGO.
The Very Large Array (VLA) Radio Telescope
Synchrotron radiation by an electron gyrating in a magnetic field.
Temperature and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
The First Galactic Black Hole: Cygnus X-1
A Galactic Black Hole Accreting from It’s Binary Star Companion
Another View of a Black Hole Accreting Gas from a Star
How To Tell if a Binary
Star System
Contains a Black Hole?
Rapid X-Ray Variability
in GRS 1915+105
Massive Black Holes Everywhere!
Some Hubble Telescope Close-Ups of Quasars
The Antennae Galaxies: A Nearby Merger Event
The Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy Arp 220
Emission-Line Evidence for a Massive Black Hole
Maser Evidence for a Massive Black Hole
The Monster at the Center of our Galaxy?
An optical view of our monster …
The Galactic Center: A Wimp Compared to Other Massive Black Holes
Some other pictures you might find interesting…
Ionization cone from a nearby obscured AGN (in the Circinus galaxy)
The newly launched
Chandra satellite
– the X-ray
analog of HST