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Lecture 27:. Black Holes. Stellar Corpses:. white dwarfs collapsed cores of low-mass stars supported by electron degeneracy white dwarf limit 1.4 M sun neutron stars collapsed cores of high-mass stars supported by neutron degeneracy neutron star limit about 3 M sun black holes - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Lecture 27:Black Holes
Stellar Corpses: white dwarfswhite dwarfs
collapsed cores of low-mass stars supported by electron degeneracy white dwarf limit 1.4 Msun
neutron starsneutron stars collapsed cores of high-mass stars supported by neutron degeneracy neutron star limit about 3 Msun
black holesblack holes collapse to a singularity
General Relativity
the equivalence principle:the equivalence principle: gravity and acceleration are equivalent
– i.e., one cannot discriminate between being at rest in a gravitational field and being accelerated in the absence of gravity
gravity = acceleration
General Relativity
mass causes space-time to curve:mass causes space-time to curve: Imagine space-time as a four-
dimensional rubber sheet. Any object with mass causes this sheet to become deformed.
General Relativity
the curvature of space-time tells the curvature of space-time tells matter how to move:matter how to move: What we perceive as gravity arises
from the curvature of space-time. Masses follow the ‘straightest possible paths’ possible given the curvature.
Strange consequences of the Equivalence Principle:
gravitational time dilationgravitational time dilation: time runs slower near a
massive object
flashes take a longertime to reach
flashes take a shorter time to reach
Strange consequences of the Equivalence Principle:
gravitational time dilationgravitational time dilation: time runs slower near a
massive object gravitational redshiftinggravitational redshifting:
light escaping from a massive object is shifted towards lower frequencies/longer wavelengths
Strange but true: observations confirming the predictions of
general relativity gravitational lensing (bending of light
by gravity) confirmed during a solar eclipse in 1919
Strange but true: observations confirming the predictions of
general relativity gravitational lensing (bending of light
by gravity) confirmed during a solar eclipse in 1919
precession of the perihelion of Mercury: general relativity predicts a correction to Newton’s Law, which fits the observations
574 arcsec per century
Newtonian theorypredicted 531 arcsecper century
Strange but true: observations confirming the predictions of
general relativity gravitational lensing (bending of light
by gravity) confirmed during a solar eclipse in 1919
precession of the perihelion of Mercury: general relativity predicts a correction to Newton’s Law, which fits the observations
gravitational redshifting: spectral lines from white dwarfs are shifted; direct confirmation in 1960
Black Holes
general relativity predicts that there can be singularities in space-time, places where the density of matter becomes infinite
‘black holes’ are the name for one kind of ‘singular solution’ in the equations.
Formation of a Black Hole
The paths of photons in curved space-time
Escape velocity from a black hole
remember (from Chapter 5) the escape velocity is given by vesc = [2GM/R]1/2
what if the escape velocity was equal to the speed of light?
this would set a maximum radius for which light could escape from an object with a given mass
The Schwarzschild radiusThe Schwarzschild radius
v2esc = [2GM/R] = c2
RS = 2GM/c2
or RS = [3.0 x M/Msun] km
The Schwarzschild radius
the larger the mass of a black hole, the larger the Schwarzschild radius
once light or any object has crossed the Schwarzschild radius (or event horizon), it can never escape the force of gravity of the black hole.
Black holes have no hair all information about the material
that is inside the event horizon of a black hole is lost, except mass charge angular momentum
Black hole Entropy Theorem
The total amount of information (entropy) in the Universe cannot decrease (second law of thermodynamics)
this is what lead Bekenstein and Hawking to the idea that Black holes must radiate
Falling into a black hole
stretched by tidal forces time slows down radiation is redshifted
Observational Evidence
there is evidence that black holes formed from collapsed stars exist in some X-ray binaries
most promising candidate: Cygnus X-1: 18 Msun star orbiting an
unseen companion with a mass of 10 Msun
too massive to be a neutron star and too small to be an ordinary star
Cygnus X-1
Supermassive Black Holes
there is very good evidence from the motions of stars and gas near the centers of galaxies that most galaxies (including our own) contain ‘supermassive black holes’ – black holes weighing millions to billions of solar masses
how these objects formed is still something of a mystery…
M87
White holes, Wormholes, and tunnels through hyperspace
black holes are only one of the several kinds of singularities in the equations of general relativity
white holes are sort of like the opposite of black holes
a wormhole is a black hole connecting to a white hole
Einstein-Rosen bridge
Wormhole
the end