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Course ID:ASTR 1870. 3 hours.
Course Title:Black Holes
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Description:
History and development of general relativity, supernovae and compact objects. Observational evidence for stellar and supermassive black holes. Primordial black holes, wormholes, and the Big Bang. Contributions of Einstein, Chandrasekhar, Oppenheimer, Zwicky, Wheeler, Zel'dovich, Hawking, and Penrose.
Athena Title:BLACK HOLES
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Offered spring semester every even-numbered year.
Grading System:A-F (Traditional)
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