ASTR 210: Black Holes in the Universe
Section 1, Spring 2025
Lecture: Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Location:
RITA, room 363
Time: MWF 2:00 - 2:50 pm
Instructor: Dr. George
Chartas
Office: RITA,
room 307
Office
hours: MWF : 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Phone: (843)
953-3609
Email:
chartasg@cofc.edu
Schedule
The required textbook for the course is Gravity’s
Fatal Attraction, Black Holes in the Universe Third Edition by Mitchell
Begelman and Martin Rees.
The recommended textbook for the course is Black
Holes and Time Warps, and Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy by Kip S. Thorne.
Please let me know if you have a conflict with any
test and final exam dates.
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8 Jan |
Ch. 1 Gravity Triumphant |
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10 Jan |
Ch. 1 |
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13 Jan |
Ch. 1 |
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15 Jan |
Ch. 2 Stars and Their Fates |
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17 Jan |
Ch. 2 |
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20 Jan |
Martin Luther King Holiday
observed -- No Classes |
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22 Jan |
Ch. 2 |
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24 Jan |
Ch. 2 |
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27 Jan |
Ch. 3 Black Holes in our
Backyard |
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29 Jan |
Ch. 3 |
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31 Jan |
Ch. 3 |
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3 Feb |
Ch. 4 Galaxies and Their Nuclei |
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5 Feb |
Ch. 4 |
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7 Feb |
Ch. 4 |
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10 Feb |
Ch. 5 Quasars and Kin |
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12 Feb |
Test 1, chapters 1-4 |
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14 Feb |
Ch. 5 |
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17 Feb |
Ch. 5 |
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19 Feb |
Ch. 6 Jets |
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21 Feb |
Ch. 6 |
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24 Feb |
Ch. 6 |
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26 Feb |
Ch. 7 Blasts from the Past |
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28 Feb |
Ch. 7 |
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3 Mar |
Spring Break, no classes |
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5 Mar |
Spring Break, no classes |
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7 Mar |
Spring Break, no classes |
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10 Mar |
Ch. 8 Black Holes in Hibernation |
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12 Mar |
Presentations I |
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1. Title: Time Travel (Quasai Smadi) |
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14 Mar |
Ch. 8 |
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17 Mar |
Ch. 8 |
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19 Mar |
Presentations II |
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2. Title: Direct Imaging of a SMBH (Brooks Brasseur and Emma Williams) 3.
Title:Wormholes:
Natalia Ramirez and Caton McClam) |
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21 Mar |
Ch. 9 Cosmic Feedback |
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24 Mar |
Test 2, chapters 5-8 |
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26 Mar |
Ch. 9 |
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28 Mar |
Ch. 9 |
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31 Mar |
Presentations III |
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4. Title: How did the first SMBH form? (Abbey
and Zachary) 5.
Title:
Extreme Effects Near a Black Hole (Rene
Dorian Reil and Emily Helzer) |
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2 Apr |
Ch. 10 Postcards from the Edge |
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4 Apr |
Ch. 10 |
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7 Apr |
Ch. 11 Gravitational Waves |
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9 Apr |
Presentations IV |
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6. Title: Gravitational Waves from BH
Collisions (Rina
Timofieieva) 7. Title: Extracting Energy from a Black Hole (Madeline,
Eric, and Christopher) |
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11 Apr |
Ch. 11 |
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14 Apr |
Test 3, chapters 9-11 |
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16 Apr |
Ch. 12 Through the Horizon |
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18 Apr |
Ch. 12 |
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21 Apr |
Neutrino Astronomy (IceCube) |
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23 Apr |
Review and last day of class |
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28 Apr |
FINAL EXAM (3:30pm - 5:30pm) |
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Final on chapters 5, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10, 11, 12 |
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