Fundamental concepts of black holes in the context of gravitational theory.
General Relativity:
Describes distances in spacetime near massive bodies.
Explains phenomena like the precession of Mercury, deflection of light, gravitational time dilation, and gravitational waves.
Black Hole Characteristics
Singularities and event horizons, rotating and charged black holes, the "No Hair" theorem, Hawking radiation, tides near black holes, detection methods.
Schwartzschild Solution
Metric for a static black hole; the event horizon marks the boundary between outside and inside the black hole.
For a non-rotating black hole, spacetime has infinite curvature at the singularity.