22. Black holes I

MIT 8.962 General Relativity, Spring 2020
Instructor: Scott Hughes
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We reconcile the odd behavior of the different views of infall into the spherically symmetrically spacetime by studying the motion of light.  We find that these spacetimes contain a surface beyond which communication is not possible — an ‘event horizon’ — and therefore constitute black holes.  This class focuses on the non-rotating Schwarzschild black hole; more general forms are known (the rotating Kerr solution being particularly important).  Unfortunately, plans for more detailed discussion were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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