Introduction to black hole physics

Lectures at Gravitational Waves 2018

Les Houches, France, 2-27 July 2018

The lectures introduce some aspects of black hole physics. The prerequisite is some basic knowledge of general relativity, at the level of an introductory course, as in Thomas Moore's lectures at the same summer school.

Slides and videos

Lecture 1 (3 July 2018)

What is a black hole?
[slides 1] [video]

Lecture 2 (4 July 2018)

What is a black hole? (cont'd)
The Schwarzschild black hole (start)
[slides 1] [slides 2] [video]

Lecture 3 (5 July 2018)

The Schwarzschild black hole (cont'd)
The Kerr black hole (start)
[slides 2] [slides 3] [video]

Lecture 4 (6 July 2018)

The Kerr black hole (cont'd)
[slides 3] [video]

Lecture 5 (9 July 2018)

Dynamics of black holes
[slides 4] [video]

SageMath session (Wed 11 July 2018, 2:30pm)

Introduction to SageMath and its use for general relativity computations
[slides]

NB: if you want to run SageMath without having to install it on your computer, open a free account on CoCalc (Collaborative Calculation in the Cloud)