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
Ghez, Andrea 58
gravitational constant, Newton's 4
gravitational potential well 13, 37
gravitational redshift 38
gravity 4
guide star 57
H
hair 28, 29
Hawking, Stephen 36, 48, 54
Hawking radiation 52, 53
Hawking temperature 53
Hawley, John 73
Heisenberg uncertainty
principle 51, 61
helium 6
Herschel,William 7
hole, white 33
Hubble Space Telescope 87
I
information paradox 54
information theory 48
intergalactic medium 78
inverse Compton scattering 80
K
Kepler's laws 58
Kerr, Roy 29, 42
Kerr black hole 26, 29, 30
Kerr black hole, extreme 31
kinetic energy 3
L
Laplace, Pierre-Simon 5, 6, 10
Lense-Thirring 29, 65
light, speed of 2
light cone 18
lobes, plasma 77
lobes, radio 78, 80
M
Magorrian, John 58
Maskelyne, Reverend Dr Nevil 8
Messier 106 72
metric 23
Michell, John 6
microquasars 64, 84
Minkowski, Hermann 12
Minkowski spacetime 12
Moran, Jim 72
N
naked singularity 30
Neptune 3
neutron degeneracy pressure 61
neutron star 61
Newton, Sir Isaac 7
Newton's gravitational constant 4
NGC 4258 72
null geodesic 22
O
O'Sullivan, John 93
Oppenheimer, Robert 1
P
Penrose, Roger 30, 32, 48, 77
photon 2
photon sphere 44
Planck area 50
point mass 4
potential well, gravitational 13
Preskill, John 54
prograde orbits 44
Q
quasars 63, 78
R
radio lobes 78, 80
radius, Schwarzschild 5
redshift 38
Rees, Martin 93
relativistic jet 87
relativity, general 12
relativity, special 12
retrograde orbits 44
Rosen, Nathan 33
Royal Astronomical Society 2
S
Schwarzschild, Karl 1
Schwarzschild black hole 26, 30
Schwarzschild radius 5
second law of thermodynamics 48
simple harmonic motion 56
simultaneity 19
singularity 4, 5
singularity, naked 30
Snyder, Hartland 1
solar eclipse 23
Solar System 56
spacetime 12
spacetime diagrams 15
spacetime, curvature 13
spacetime,Minkowski 12
special relativity 12
speed of light 2
spin 14
SS433 85, 86
star, dark 11
stars, binary 8
static limit 31, 45
steam engine 48
stellar mass black holes 60, 61
supermassive black holes 60
surface gravity 53
synchrotron radiation 79, 80
T
temperature 48
thermal radiation 52
thermodynamics, first law of 48, 51
thermodynamics, second law of 48
Thorne, Kip 54
tidal forces 41
time dilation 39
turbulence 64
V
V404 Cyg 61
vacuum 51
Very Long Baseline Array 71
virtual particles 52
VLBA 71, 72
von Zach, Franz Xaver 10
W
water maser 72
Wheeler, John 1
white dwarf 60
white hole 32, 33
WIFI 802.11 protocol 89
worldline 16
wormhole 33
Z
Znajek, Roman 77