BH Astrophysics
Syllabus
Intro
Week 1
Differential equations
Orbital mechanics
Week 2
Orbital dynamics
Tides and the Roche potential
Relativity
Week 3
Special Relativity I
Week 4
Special Relativity II
General Relativity I
Week 5
General Relativity II
General Relativity III
Week 6
General Relativity IV
Schwarzschild metric
BH Exteriors
Week 7
Special cases and null geodesics
Black holes do not suck
Week 8
Cutting it close
Rotating black holes
GWs
Week 9
Gravitational waves
Multimessenger astronomy
Week 12
Sources of GWs
Compact binary mergers
BH Interiors
Week 13
Approaching the event horizon
Null coordinates
Week 14
Kerr BH interior
Gravitational collapse
Week 15
Realistic BH interior
Ways to die from a BH
Anatomy of an explosion
Supplemental notes