Video Lectures

Accreting black holes are observed in a large variety of systems in astronomy: active galactic nuclei, X-ray binaries, tidal disruption events, gamma-ray bursts. While analytical one-dimensional models have been enormously useful for understanding...

On the reality of black holes. I will give a quick introduction to the initial value problem in GR and overview of the problems of Rigidity, Stability and Collapse and how they fit with regard to the Final State Conjecture.

The gravitational waves...