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Outline
• Black Holes – Schwartzchild radius – River Model of a Black Hole – Light in orbit – Tidal forces
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Black Holes
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• What happens as the star shrinks / its mass increases? How much can spacetime be distorted by a very massive object?
• Remember: in a Newtonian black hole, the escape speed simply exceeds the speed of light
=> Can gravity warp spacetime to the point where even light cannot escape it’s grip?
That, then, would be a black hole.
Black Holes
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Black Holes
• A Black Hole is a collapsed region of space
• Gravity curves space so much that close enough in light is bent so much it always falls in
• If you get close enough to a blakc hole, you can never get back out
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• Time flows more slowly near a massive object, space is “stretched” out (circumference < 2πR)
• Critical: the ratio of circumference/mass of the object. If this ratio is small, GR effects are large (i.e., more mass within same region or same mass within smaller region)
Black Holes
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• GR predicts: If mass is contained in a circumference smaller than a certain size
space time within and around that mass concentration qualitatively changes. A far away observer would locate this critical surface at a radius
• Gravitational time dilation becomes infinite as one approaches the critical surface.
gravitational constant
speed of light
critical circumference
mass
Schwarzschild radius
The Schwarzschild Radius
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How big does a BH need to be to float?
• Rs = 3 (M/M¤) km
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• To a stationary oberserver far away, time flow at the critical surface (at RS) is slowed down infinitely.
• Light emitted close to the critical surface is severely red-shifted (the frequency is lower) and at the critical surface, the redshift is infinite.
From inside this region
no information can escape red-shifted
red-shifted into oblivion
Black Holes
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• Inside the critical surface, spacetime is so warped that objects cannot move outward at all, not even light.
=> Events inside the critical surface can never affect the region outside the critical surface, since no information about them can escape gravity.
=> We call this surface the event horizon
because it shields the outside completely from any events on the inside.
Event Horizon
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• Critical distinction to the Newtonian black hole:
Nothing ever leaves the horizon of a GR black hole.
• Lots of questions… What happens to matter falling in?
What happens at the center? Can we observe black holes anyway? And much, much more…
Newton Einstein
Black Holes
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River Model of a Black Hole
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River Model of a Black Hole
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River Model of a Black Hole
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Tides near a Black Hole
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What would happen if you fell into a Black Hole the
mass of the Sun? • Recall that force of gravity is
F = GMm / R2
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What would happen if you fell into a Black Hole the
mass of the Sun? • Recall that force of gravity is
F = GMm / R2 • But, if you fall feet first, your head is farther
away than your feet, so F2 = GMm / (R+r)2
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What would happen if you fell into a Black Hole the
mass of the Sun? • Recall that force of gravity is
F = GMm / R2 • But, if you fall feet first, your head is farther
away than your feet, so F2 = GMm / (R+r)2
• This force will try to stretch you • How close can you get before this is a
problem?
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What would happen if you fell into a Black Hole the
mass of the Sun? • How close can you get before you get
pulled apart? • Difference in force, if r << R
F - F2 = dF = GMm (1/R2 – 1/(R-r)2)
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What would happen if you fell into a Black Hole the
mass of the Sun? • How close can you get before you get
pulled apart? • Difference in force, if r << R
F - F2 = dF = GMm (1/R2 – 1/(R-r)2)
• Difference in force, if r << R dF = 2GMm r / R3
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What would happen if you fell into a Black Hole the
mass of the Sun? • How close can you get before you get
pulled apart? • Difference in force, if r << R
F - F2 = dF = GMm (1/R2 – 1/(R-r)2)
• Difference in force, if r << R dF = 2GMm r / R3
• Rearrange, R3 = 2GMm r / dF
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What would happen if you fell into a Black Hole the
mass of the Sun? • R = (2GMm r / dF)1/3
• M = 2*1030 kg, G = 6.673*10-11
• r = 1m, m = 40kg
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What would happen if you fell into a Black Hole the
mass of the Sun? • R = (2GMm r / dF)1/3
• M = 2*1030 kg, G = 6.673*10-11
• r = 1m, m = 40kg • How much stretching force to kill you?
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What would happen if you fell into a Black Hole the
mass of the Sun? • R = (2GMm r / dF)1/3
• M = 2*1030 kg, G = 6.673*10-11
• r = 1m, m = 40kg • How much stretching force to kill you? • dF ~ 1000 kg * 10 m/s2 ~ 10,000
• Plug in numbers, get Rdeath ~ 800 km
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What would happen if you fell into a Black Hole the
mass of the Sun? • Rdeath ~ 800 km • Schwarzschild radius
RS = 3km for Solar mass BH • So you die before you get close • You also get squeezed from the sides • Called “spaghetti-fication”
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What about a bigger Black Hole?
• Rdeath = (2GMm r / dF)1/3 Rdeath ~ 800 km * (M/Msun)1/3
• Schwarzschild radius RS= 2GM/c2
RS = 3km * (M/Msun) • For Milky way center, M = 4 million Msun
• Rdeath ~ 130,000 km, RS = 12 million km • You survive! (sort of)
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What would happen if you observed Brian fall
into a black hole ???
sketch
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What would happen if you observed Brian fall
into a black hole ???
sketch
• His infall would appear to slow down due to the high gravity.
• From your point of view, he would stay at the event horizon forever. • He would look redder due to gravitational redshift.
• He would be highly stretched from his perspective due to tidal forces (unpleasant!) • But for him time will not run slowly, he’ll be dragged into the singularity point quickly.