Slide 1ACCRETION DISKS AROUND BLACK HOLES Ramesh Narayan Slide 2 Black Hole Accretion Accretion disks around black holes (BHs) are a major topic in astrophysics Stellar-mass…
Slide 1 Black Holes and Extra Dimensions Jonathan Feng UC Irvine Penn State Physics Department Colloquium 30 January 2003 Slide 2 Penn State ColloquiumFeng 2 The Standard…
Slide 1 Black Holes and Extra Dimensions Jonathan Feng UC Irvine Harvey Mudd Colloquium 7 December 2004 Slide 2 Harvey Mudd ColloquiumFeng 2 The Standard Model CarrierForceGroup…
THE BLACK HOLE EVENT HORIZON Ramesh Narayan The Black Hole A remarkable prediction of the General Theory of Relativity Matter is crushed to a SINGULARITY Surrounding this…
Black Hole Event Horizon A Black Hole has a truly unique property: it possesses an Event Horizon A “virtual” surface One-way membrane --- matter/energy can fall in, but…
THE BLACK HOLE EVENT HORIZON Ramesh Narayan The Black Hole A remarkable prediction of the General Theory of Relativity Matter is crushed to a SINGULARITY Surrounding this…