A
absolute zero 53, 54
accretion disc 64, 65, 72
active galaxies 77, 78
adaptive optics 57
angular momentum, conservation
of 26
area 48
Australia Telescope Compact
Array 88
B
Balbus, Steve 73
Bardeen, James 48
Bardeen-Petterson 65
Bekenstein, Jacob 48
binary star 61, 62
binary stars 8
black hole Kerr 26, 29, 30
black hole, Schwarzschild 26, 30
Blandford, Roger 77
C
Cape Canavaral 4
Carter, Brandon 29, 48
Casares, Jorge 61
Cavendish, Henry 7
centre of mass 4
Chandra satellite 81, 87
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan 2
Charles, Phil 61
Christodoulou, Demetrios 32
chronology protection
conjecture 36
compact 60
cosmic censorship conjecture 30
CosmicMicrowave Background
(CMB) 80
D
dark star 6, 11
Descartes, René 12
diagrams, spacetime 15
dinosaurs 3
Done, Christine 76
E
E = mc2 66
Eardley, Douglas 33
eclipse, solar 23
Eddington limit 69
Eddington luminosity 69
Eddington rate 70
Eddington, Sir Arthur 2, 23, 69
Einstein-Rosen bridge 33
Ekers, Ron 93
electron degeneracy pressure 61
energy, kinetic 3
entropy 48
ergosphere 31, 32, 42
escape velocity 3, 4
event horizon 4
events 12
Ewing, Ann 1
extreme Kerr black hole 31
F
Fabian, Andrew 74
Feain, Ilana 89
Finkelstein, David 2
first law of thermodynamics 48, 51
Floyd, R. M. 48
Fornax cluster 3
Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph 70
frame dragging 29, 43
frame of reference 12
frame of reference, inertial 12
fusion 60
G
G?el, Kurt 34
Galactic Centre 56, 58
Galactic plane 56
gamma-ray bursts 68
general relativity 12
Genzel, Reinhard 58
geodesic 20
geodesic, null 22