Black Holes Explained

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Call Number: DVD 523.88 Fi Oversize, Adult DVD / Great Courses / Science & Nature / Astronomy / Black Holes Explained
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Course no. 1841.
Course guidebook includes lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.
12 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture.
Lecture 1. A general introduction to black holes -- Lecture 2. The violent deaths of massive stars -- Lecture 3. Gamma-ray bursts- the birth of black holes -- Lecture 4. Searching for stellar-mass black holes -- Lecture 5. Monster of the Milky Way and other galaxies -- Lecture 6. Quasars- feasting supermassive black holes -- Lecture 7. Gravitational waves- ripples in space-time -- Lecture 8. The wildest ride in the universe -- Lecture 9. Shortcuts through the universe and beyond? -- Lecture 10. Stephen Hawking and black hole evaporation -- Lecture 11. Black holes and holographic universe -- Lecture 12. Black holes and the Large Hadron Collider.
Lecturer: Professor Alex Filippenko, University of California, Berkeley.
Nearly everyone has heard of black holes, but few people outside of complex scientific fields understand their true nature and their implications for our universe. This lecture course makes this cosmological subject graspable, with 12 lavishly illustrated lectures by veteran Great Courses Professor Alex Filippenko, a distinguished astronomer and award-winning teacher at the University of California, Berkeley.
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