Notes
Outline
The Core of M87
(at the center of Virgo)
Radio Jets
Giant Radio Lobes
Seyfert Galaxies
Quasars
(Quasi-stellar Objects)
Host Galaxies of Quasars
Supermassive Black Holes
Evidence of a very small size
Measuring the Monster’s Mass
The Best Case of a mass and disk measurement
Black Hole blowing bubbles
Images of AGN disks
Jet Mechanism
Zooming in on the “central engine”
Unification of Active Galactic Nuclei
Distances to Nearby Galaxies
Distances deep into the Universe
Hubble Expansion – what it is not
Hubble Expansion – what it is
There is no spatial center of expansion…
The motion is only “apparent”
Local structure interferes with Hubble flow
Galactic Redshifts
The Hubble Constant and the Age of the Universe
Cepheids are the key link
Redshift takes us from 2-D to 3-D
Quasar Spectra and the “Lyman-alpha Forest”
Cosmic Foam
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