Notes
Outline
Neutron stars
Relative sizes
Incredible Shrinking and Growing
Magnetic poles make a “pulsar”
The Crab Pulsar
Other Neutron Stars
The Binary Pulsar
The Pulsar Planets
Accreting Neutron Stars
Gravity and Light
Gravity as a curvature of spacetime
Extreme Gravity leads to “Black Holes”
The Event Horizon
Optical Distortion effects
Rotating Black Holes
Falling into a Black Hole
Cygnus X-1 : A Black Hole System
Black Hole accretion
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