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Supermassive black hole

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Primordial Black Holes and Gravitational Wave Observations

Explores Primordial Black Holes, their formation, gravitational wave signatures, constraints on abundance, and future detection prospects.

Dark Matter Indirect Detection

Explores dark matter indirect detection methods, including WIMPs, gamma-ray observations, and supermassive black holes.

Astroparticle Physics: Neutron Stars and Cosmic Rays

Explores neutron stars, supernova explosions, and their role in cosmic ray production.

Active galaxies: AGN and Black Holes

Explores the classification and statistics of AGN, black holes, unified AGN model, variability, megamasers, orbital motion measurement, and time-delay cosmography.

Scattering Structures: From Amplitudes to Black Holes

Explores gauge symmetry, amplitudes, black holes, and fluids, highlighting the interplay between redundancy, diffeomorphisms, and the double copy phenomenon.

Gravitational Waves

Explores gravitational waves, black hole properties, and their implications in astrophysics.

Astrophysical Objects: Static Systems

Explores spherically symmetric and static astrophysical objects, including black holes and the modeling of matter.

Gravitational Waves: Observations and Implications

Explores the detection of gravitational waves, focusing on the first observation of a binary black hole merger and its implications for astrophysics.

Unitarity and Entropy: From Black Holes to Baryons

Explores the connection between unitarity and entropy, from black holes to baryons, revealing universal bounds and similarities.

Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog: Insights and Challenges

Explores the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog 2 and the challenges in distinguishing compact bodies, emphasizing the need for accurate waveform models and the discovery potential in gravitational physics.

Probing Anisotropies of SGWB with LISA

Explores the sensitivity of LISA to anisotropies in the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background.

Gravitational Red-Shift and Escape Velocity

Covers the discovery of integrals of motion and the analysis of escape velocity and gravitational red-shift.

Black Holes: Signal Escape Probability

Explores signal escape probability near black holes, eternal circular orbits, equations of motion, and gravity in different space-time dimensions.

Penrose Diagrams: Spacetime Visualization

Explores Penrose diagrams for visualizing black hole spacetime, emphasizing the eternal nature of black holes formed by gravitational collapse.

Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Explores the impact of gravitational waves on central questions in astronomy, from LIGO's first detection to future prospects.

Galactic Nuclei: Radio Galaxies and Quasars MOOC: The Radio Sky I: Science and Observations

Explores the study of galactic nuclei, focusing on radio galaxies and quasars, and the unification of active galactic nuclei.

Radio Astronomy: The Hidden Universe

Explores the unique features of the radio sky and the technologies used in detecting radio waves.

Black Holes: Renormalisation Group

Covers black holes and the renormalisation group, providing detailed information on these concepts.

General Relativity: Predictions and Observations

Explores general relativity, focusing on predictions and observations, including gravitational lensing, black holes, and cosmology.

Black Holes and String Theory

Explores black holes and string theory solutions in higher-dimensional space.