0:03 Guys, let's go ahead and get started.
0:05 Today, uh, we're going to talk about
1:03 And I better put a U case in here uh
1:05 uh
1:08 with the following where the mass is
1:10 between 8 and less than
1:22 sun and less than
1:27 25 times the mass of the sun.
1:46 star, you know, after the supernova. So,
1:59 Oh my gosh. We saw last time that the
2:01 super giants which arise
2:03 uh from main sequence stars having a
2:06 mass greater than eight times the mass
2:08 of the sun but less than 25 times the
2:11 mass of the sun uh form the neutron star
2:15 after the supernova. And just to refresh
2:29 star, it is the neutron degeneracy
2:31 pressure that balances further
2:33 gravitational collapse. So I'll just say
2:35 in the neutron
3:16 Now, as long as the mass of the neutron
3:18 star is less than three times the mass
3:22 of our sun, the degeneracy pressure of
3:24 neutrons is sufficient to repulse
3:28 gravitational collapse. So, important
3:30 sense here.
3:33 So, as
3:36 long as the
3:38 the
3:53 less [Music]
3:54 [Music]
4:29 repulse gravity.
4:32 Okay, you know sometimes students get
4:34 confused. This is the mass of the
4:37 neutron star and here is you know what
4:40 the main sequence mass started out with.
4:43 Okay, but now now we're focusing on the
4:45 actual mass of the neutron star. It has
4:46 to be less than three times the mass of the
4:47 the
4:52 sun. If it's greater then the gravity is
4:53 going to collapse. It's going to be
4:55 stronger than the neutron genery
4:56 pressure and it's going to collapse it
4:59 uh to form the black hole. So I'll just say
5:00 say
5:04 but if the
5:08 mass is greater I'm talking about the
5:10 mass of the neutron star itself. If if
5:12 the mass is greater
5:14 greater
5:18 than 3 * the mass of our
5:21 sun, gravity [Music]
5:26 wins
5:29 and neutron star collapses to form the
5:56 Okay, now we want to get into some of
5:59 the uh the physical attributes of a
6:00 black hole. But before we do that, we
6:03 have to look a little at uh Einstein's
6:05 theory of
6:07 relativity. So um we're going to look at
6:09 the the first theory we're going to look
6:25 relativity relativity. Oh my gosh. Here
6:32 in
6:36 1905 he Einstein that is
6:38 is
6:44 publishes it's SR SR he he 1920
6:48 Einstein publishes oh my
6:53 gosh SR here we go S SR SR SR and the
6:57 basis of SR is two postulates so there's
6:59 two postulates and with the two
7:02 postulates then all the important laws
7:05 of special relativity can be arrived at
7:07 derived at however you want to say it so
7:09 the two postulates are as follows and
7:11 I'm kind of watering down some of the
7:14 formalism here uh the laws of physics
7:43 uh technically the laws of physics are
7:47 the same uh in every non uh accelerating
7:52 uh reference frame. uh another word, but
7:54 I think just if I soften it like this
7:56 and say laws of physics hold everywhere
7:59 in the universe, we're good with that.
8:02 Maybe maybe I should spell that
8:04 correctly here. Just wipe that out.
8:07 Okay, that's one. And then the second is
8:09 that no matter who you are and no matter
8:12 what your speed is and no matter the
8:14 source of the light, that when you go to
8:15 measure the speed of light, everybody
8:17 measures the speed of light as the same value.
8:19 value.
8:40 observers and as we have discussed
8:44 that's letter C and rounding it off it's
8:49 about 3 * 10 to the 8 m/s. Another way
8:52 to think about it, 670 million miles per
9:00 million m
9:02 m
9:07 hour. Okay, so it's the same for all. Uh
9:10 so these are the two
9:12 postulates. Okay. And then out of those
9:17 then you get a plethora of important
9:21 uh constraints um and equations as well.
9:24 So these give rise to the following effects.
9:25 effects.
9:28 These two the two
9:31 postulates give
9:35 rise and to the
9:44 Oh gosh. In no particular order. No
9:46 particular order here,
9:54 should I don't want to number them
9:58 either because I just there's no So, I
10:01 did a hyphen here. So, time
10:03 dilation. Time
10:06 dilation. In a nutshell, what this means
10:08 is moving
10:52 clock. Now, if I take this clock, it
10:54 tick tick tick and I throw it and we
10:56 watch the second hand. and I throw it
10:57 really fast, we'll see that the second
11:00 hand will tick more slowly than it would
11:03 if the clock was was was
11:05 stationary. Um, and that's time
11:08 dilation. And that applies to
11:11 all matter. You know, it applies to
11:13 blocks of wood and house plants and
11:16 people. Anytime you're traveling fast or
11:20 relative to a stationary uh clock, a
11:22 stationary person, whatever, your clock,
11:25 the fact that you're traveling uh with a
11:26 great velocity is going to tick more
11:29 slowly. Now, the velocity has to be up
11:30 on the order, you know, percentage of
11:32 the speed of light. And so, in general,
11:34 that's why you never notice it. We just
11:35 don't travel fast enough really to
11:38 notice time dilation. Uh, another interesting
11:40 interesting
11:54 So uh distances parallel to the velocity
12:19 direction will decrease in
12:21 length. I got
12:25 a I had another example here I show you.
12:29 So we hit the clock. Let me get the the ruler
12:31 ruler
12:33 out. This a
12:35 ruler. 6 in
12:38 mechanics steel ruler. Now, if I take it
12:41 and throw it really fast and you were to
12:43 measure the length of it be slightly
12:47 less than than um 6 in. And the faster I
12:50 throw it, the more that it contracts
12:52 along that length. And I have to throw
12:54 it so that it's in the same direction as
12:57 the length of the ruler. Okay. You know,
13:00 if I turn it this way, damn thing, and
13:02 then I throw it this way, then of course
13:04 the width of it would shrink. If I take
13:06 it this way and throw it that way, the
13:08 length of it, that's what we mean by
13:10 distances, you know, along the velocity
13:14 direction will decrease in length. And
13:16 again, the effect is only noticeable
13:18 when those velo when you're the speed
13:20 that the ruler is traveling at is on the
13:21 order of the speed of light. And so, in
13:23 general, we don't see it unless you
13:24 observe something that's moving very
13:27 quickly. i.e. ate the speed of light
13:29 you're not going to see this effect. So
13:33 it's for ordinary common garden variety
13:35 everyday velocities which are very small
13:39 relative to 670 million miles an hour 3
13:42 * 10 8 meters per second just don't have
13:44 the velocity those are too small you're
13:47 not going to see the effect. Another
13:48 important effect that came out of
13:50 special relativity was this equivalence
13:52 between matter and energy and that's
13:54 this very famous equation. Energy is
13:56 equal to the amount of matter mass times
14:00 the speed of light squared. So E= MC^2.
14:03 So matter and energy are the same thing.
14:36 So,
14:39 um, we note if we go back to these first
14:43 two, the way that the time ticks is
14:47 relative to the speed and the space
14:52 occupied by that object is modified. I
14:54 uh again dependent upon the speed. So we
14:57 see an al uh an intimate connection
15:00 between space and time and then this was
15:02 an important realization made by
15:04 Einstein is that we must
15:07 treat the time variable on equal footing
15:09 with the spatial variables and that led
15:12 to this concept known as
15:37 time
15:44 equals and this led to the concept known
16:01 uh is four-dimensional because of this.
16:03 We have three spatial dimensions. We
16:07 have front and back that's one. Left and
16:11 right that's two. Up and down that's
16:15 three. And also time that's four. So
16:18 this concept of spacetime represents a
16:22 four-dimensional entity. Okay. And that
16:24 and so that's this idea that you put
16:27 time treated equally as the spatial
16:31 dimensions and the sum of those then you
16:33 got the three that come from space and
16:35 then another comes from time. That's a
16:38 four dimensions. Okay. But now prior to
16:43 Einstein was in the era of Newton the
16:46 idea was that time was absolute and that
16:48 there was some sort of if you want to
16:51 think about it some master grandfather
16:53 clock somewhere in the universe and then
16:54 that all the other clocks were
16:57 referenced off of that master to to to
17:01 to grandfather clock and what Einstein
17:03 showed you know mainly here because the
17:08 length contra uh length d time dilation
17:11 that time is, you know, relative to the
17:14 that person and their motion through u
17:17 the space and so that if you move more
17:19 quickly then your time is going to slow
17:22 down relative to a stationary observer.
17:25 Okay? So no longer is time absolute time
17:28 is relative. Okay? And of course with
17:30 length contraction spatial dimensions
17:32 are relative. They're dependent upon the
17:35 motion of the actual object. And then
17:37 that's where the word relativity comes
17:39 from. Okay, so that's special
17:41 relativity. And special relativity only
17:46 gets us so far to fully grasp the
17:48 important features of the black hole. We
17:50 got to talk about his next theory of
17:52 relativity, which is a general theory of
17:55 relativity. So we start a new page on
17:56 the page
17:59 four. And so we go back and Einstein publishes
18:01 publishes
18:05 SR in 1905.
18:08 And so for 10 years he after he
18:10 published that he works on the general
18:14 theory of relativity. So
18:32 relativity and abbreviate that GR. So we
18:35 have SR and we have GR. Okay. So this is
18:51 uh there's basically one postulate of GR
18:53 and then with that one postulate
18:56 postulate you get the field equation and
18:57 the field equation
19:01 then it connects how the matter and
19:04 energy then distort the the local
19:06 spaceime and then the motion through
19:08 that spaceime gives the appearance or
19:10 the illusion of the force of gravity.
19:12 I'm getting kind of ahead. We'll talk
19:15 about it later on, but okay.
19:18 So, so I want to go kind of in the
19:21 saying. So, one right here one postulate
19:22 and then if that one
19:25 postulate then the field equation can be
19:27 written. So, one postulate and the one
19:30 postulate is goes by a special name of
19:33 the equivalence principle. So okay let's
19:36 write down the special name of of it and
19:38 then I'll write in words what it is draw
19:40 a picture and then we of course have a
19:43 nice picture on the web page it'll be
19:44 much better than the one that we can
19:46 draw. So the one question is known as
19:49 the equivalence principle in a nutshell
19:52 in glossing over some of the uh the
19:54 nuances here. Uh
20:25 a rocket ship. I didn't know how to say
20:27 this, but I
20:40 1g
21:03 earth. Oh my gosh. That's the equivalence
21:05 equivalence
21:07 principle. Bad draw
21:12 picture. All right. So, here we go. Here
21:19 house on Earth. And there's no windows
21:22 in this house. There's just a one-way
21:23 door. You go in there and we lock the
21:28 door. And you're in there. There's a
21:31 chair and a lamp and a bunch of books
21:34 and a video games and food and water and
21:37 an exercise uh facility and a facility
21:41 to cook and uh entertainment loca uh a
21:44 room and there's sleeping room, you
21:47 know, gymnasium, bathroom, all that. But
21:48 there's no windows and you can't look
21:50 outside. Now, you're on the
21:54 earth. We put you in there on the earth. Okay.
22:01 But we can also put you in that same
22:03 house. It's just again, this is a
22:05 special house. And then put rocket
22:08 motors and then put you out in space far
22:10 away. Again, you've got oxygen, water,
22:13 food, and turn on accelerate the rocket
22:15 motors so that this
22:18 structure has an acceleration equal to
22:20 1g. Of course, that 1g is what you
22:22 experience on Earth due to Earth's
22:24 gravity. And what this equivalence
22:27 principle is is the following is you can
22:28 again there's no windows you can't look
22:30 out in either one of these situations.
22:37 space and this is on
22:40 earth and this was the connection
22:43 Einstein is that the gravity and
22:46 acceleration are one and the same. Okay.
22:49 So there's no test you can
22:53 do there. There is a caveat classically
22:56 there's no test you can do. Um but there
22:59 are there are some ways around it but
23:02 okay don't there's actually if if the
23:03 house is really big you can actually
23:06 measure the tidal force and that'll
23:10 that'll tell you something. So but and
23:11 then there's quantum tests. You surely
23:15 do you uh you you see
23:18 unrrew radiation in this that you don't
23:24 see here. So that's one way you could
23:35 um this is equivalence principle. Okay.
23:42 Einstein use that then to get the
23:44 general theory of relativity. And then
23:46 in a nutshell, let's see, I guess I'm on
23:49 page five. Um
23:50 Um
23:54 yeah. So what happens then is then with
23:56 that you get the field equation and the
23:57 field equation then tells you the
24:01 following. You get matter and energy in
24:03 a particular region then will warp the
24:07 space in that region. So GR using this
24:08 one postulate you get the field equation
24:11 which in a nutshell tells you this
24:14 matter and because we saw equals MC² the
24:16 equivalent matter and energy. So matter and
24:24 energy curves, bends,
24:32 bends the
24:43 spacetime and then that the motion of
24:46 you through that bent or curved spaceime
24:49 then is gives the illusion of the force
24:51 of gravity.
25:16 time that then gives this uh force of
25:17 gravity. Oh, I feel the force of gravity.
25:27 So as an example in our own solar system
25:29 think of the sun as very massive and so
25:34 the sun bends the space inward and if we
25:36 think of about a a way of drawing this
25:38 in a two-dimensional manner draw a
25:40 sphere here and label it the sun and
25:54 Whoop. Okay. So, this is the bent spacetime.
26:10 Uh one of the important consequences of
26:12 this is the
26:15 um so uh
26:17 uh
26:26 bent as it travels. Boy, what a long bullet.
26:40 spacetime and draw a picture page
26:42 six. Oh my
26:45 gosh. So here the one of the tests that
26:47 we were able to do is the following. So
27:05 And uh we're looking at uh starlight
27:14 star. And we projected the star to be
27:17 out here. So this is what we call the
27:29 And this a distant star but its actual
27:32 position is actually over
27:35 here. So this is the actual position and
27:37 the reason is is when the light leaves
27:40 the star because it travels
27:43 through the region of space near the sun
27:46 it comes in and it gets
27:50 bent. And so if we look from
27:54 overhead there, it's like that.
27:57 Okay. And so that was an early test that
28:01 we were able to do that verifies the
28:03 validity of the field equation which is
28:06 a byproduct of general relativity and of
28:09 course the equivalence principle.
28:11 Um so here's an example where we see that
28:12 that
28:15 there's the spatial part is bent and
28:18 there's also time is affected. So time is
28:59 So if I go back to this picture, I have
29:08 um or you know whatever watch whatever.
29:10 So there's a clock far away where the
29:11 space is flat. And then I have a clock
29:15 down here where we're the clock is close
29:16 to the
29:19 sun. And I carefully watch the second
29:21 hand on these two clocks. This second
29:24 hand here will tick more slowly relative
29:26 to that. So right here ticks
29:28 ticks
29:31 slower relative to this. This is a
29:34 normal tick because it's out here where
29:35 it's flat and here we have high
29:38 curvature. So any region where you have
29:40 high curvature the time in that region
29:43 is going to tick slower relative to
29:50 spacetime. So another way to think about
29:54 is you live a long time if you are in a
29:57 region of high curvature neutron star a
30:00 normal star and then of course near a
30:05 black hole. Okay. Uh next topic relating
30:08 to uh gravity and that's
30:28 So anytime an electromagnetic signal
30:31 leaves a region of high curvature, the
30:32 wavelengths will get stretched out.
30:34 They'll go to longer wavelengths, which
30:35 if you think in the visible, that's
30:38 shifting all the colors to the red. So
30:40 the gravitational red shift goes like
30:58 reds
31:04 as an electromagnetic signal wave whatever.
31:37 So, if I go back to this drawing and I have
31:39 have
31:43 a say a light source here and I point it
31:46 up, you know, say I have a flashlight
31:49 and I turn it on and the light leaves
31:52 the flashlight here and it travels away.
31:55 Excuse me. So as it travels away all the
31:57 the spectra in that light will get
31:59 shifted towards the reds and that's due
32:08 Okay. Um one of the early successful
32:10 tests of the in Einstein theory of
32:13 general relativity was the measure well
32:15 I should say was the agreement in the
32:20 motion of of Mercury uh as it orbits the sun.
32:37 So
32:41 the the name is the shift in the
32:44 perihelion of Mercury.
33:00 it and draw a picture. So when we look
33:04 and we see how um Mercury orbits the
33:06 sun, the Mercury is the closest planet
33:09 in the solar system that orbits the sun and
33:12 and
33:15 the the motion there's so Mercury's
33:18 orbit is not a perfect circle. It's got
33:19 some slidy
33:23 electricity and that elliptical path actually
33:24 actually
33:27 slowly precesses slowly
33:31 moves and we have we've observed that
33:32 you know through telescopes we've
33:34 actually mapped out the fact that that
33:39 happens and then prior to Einstein using
33:42 Newton's laws if you come up with a
33:45 calculation of how much it should
33:48 precess and you compare that to what you
33:49 measure or what you you know observe and
33:51 measure there was a
33:55 disagreement. Well, it turns out that in
33:57 Einstein's theory of general
33:59 relativity there's a
34:02 contribution which just goes by the word
34:04 tech the technical word desitter
34:06 precession and when you add in the
34:08 effect of the ditter
34:12 precession then the number you get is
34:14 exactly equal to what we measure when we
34:16 look at it through the telescope. So we
34:18 have an we have accurate agreement between
34:20 between
34:24 uh Einstein's theory and then what we
34:27 see in the motion of Mercury.
34:31 So, I don't know in a nutshell,
34:38 sun, and I'm going to exaggerate this.
34:41 And here's Mercury. And then if we watch
34:43 it, the way that it orbits, it it walks
34:45 around this thing like this.
34:47 this.
34:50 Okay. Now, here's
34:54 Mercury. And I've exaggerated it.
34:56 And we see so here the long axis and
34:58 then the next time it's here and here
35:01 and it's really microscopic but I've ex
35:04 exaggerated it. So again everything's
35:06 not we're back to our old favorite not to
35:13 scale. Now the
35:17 perihelion is the close approach. So in
35:19 this first one it's right there and then
35:22 in this one it's right there. So those
35:34 shift. There's two of them. Then in this
35:37 one it'd be over here. I somehow lost
35:39 all my lines here. I there's another one
35:41 in there. I guess. Yeah. One, two,
35:43 three. There should be one, two. I guess
35:46 there's three. They one on top of each
35:49 other. So this one somewhere right
35:52 there, I guess. And this one is for that
35:55 one. And that one is for that one. This
35:56 is the app he helium which is the far
35:58 away point. So there's the app healing
36:00 there, the app heel there. And they
36:02 could have called the shift in the app he
36:08 helium, but they called it the
36:10 perihelion, which is the close point.
36:13 Appalium is a far away point. Far away
36:15 point. There's the close point.
36:17 point.
36:31 uh the result of
36:53 And before we had GR Newton's laws, we
36:55 didn't we had a there was a discrepancy
36:57 between what you saw and what Newton's
37:00 law said it should be. All right. All
37:02 right. Let's go back. That's enough of
37:04 the intro material on Einstein's theory
37:06 of general relativity to go back and
37:08 pick up. Remember, we're talking about
37:10 black holes. So let's go back and then
37:13 talk about we kind of left off where we
37:16 have a neutron star and there's a upper
37:18 mass limit three times the mass of the
37:21 sun. And so now let's do a new bullet
37:37 forms.
37:39 So main
37:44 sequence star having a mass greater than
37:47 25. See um
37:49 um
37:52 remember eight less than eight white
37:56 dwarf between 8 and 25 neutron star
38:02 greater than 25 black hole. So
38:10 main sequence star. So again, this is a
38:12 star on the main sequence line. So main sequence
38:14 sequence
38:28 greater
38:33 than 25 times the mass of the
38:43 here.
38:47 Once the iron core remember that's the
38:50 end of the layered structure of uh
38:57 core [Music]
38:59 [Music]
39:12 Sakar and that's the
39:15 1.4 the mass of the
39:19 sun the electron degeneracy breaks down
39:23 it can't repulse gravity and collapse
39:26 uh begins. So
39:29 uh once the iron core mass exceeds genocar
39:31 genocar um
39:48 uh cannot
39:51 cannot
40:07 So, gravity then goes to work on those
40:10 electrons and squeezes electron and and
40:37 protons to produce
40:43 neutrons. Neutrons. neutrons. So then
40:46 you got you already had neutrons there.
40:48 You know, you started with iron. Gravity
40:50 takes the electrons and the protons in
40:52 the iron and squeezes them together
40:53 makes neutrons. You already had some
40:55 neutrons there because you know you got
40:56 iron in the nucleus there's iron. I mean
40:59 there's neutrons. So you got neutrons, a
41:00 bunch of neutrons. So then you have
41:02 neutron degeneracy pressure. And in the
41:05 neutron star that's the stable. The
41:07 neutron degeneracy pressure can push
41:08 back against gravity.
41:12 If the mass of the main sequence is
41:16 above the 25, no the neutron degeneracy
41:17 pressure not going to be able to hold
42:04 forms this this word black
42:08 hole. So the black hole
42:14 is is such that the escape velocity
42:17 um is greater than the speed of light.
42:18 So not even
42:22 light can escape from the black hole.
42:25 And so that's where you this word black
42:40 dense
42:44 that not Even
42:46 Even
42:58 field. Remember light is the fastest
43:07 So where another way is
43:10 the escape velocity of a black hole
43:52 Now you have to be
43:55 careful. There's a point where this the
43:57 escape velocity is equal to the speed of
43:58 light and then that's what we call the
44:01 event horizon. However, matter that's
44:04 getting sucked into the black hole can
44:05 collide with other matter that's getting
44:07 sucked in the black hole. There's
44:09 actually tidal forces that slam the
44:12 matter together and that then can
44:14 produce electromagnetic radiation. If
44:17 that happens above the event horizon,
44:19 that signal can leak away from the black
44:23 hole. But it's the any signals that are
44:24 generated below the event horizon that
44:26 are not able to escape. And it's
44:28 sometimes people get confused. Oh,
44:29 you're getting this you're getting
44:32 X-rays from black light that no signals
44:35 come off from. Well, that that signal is
44:37 produced above the event
44:41 horizon. Um, all right.
44:45 Now, let me just kind of finish out here
44:47 the end.
44:55 relativity gr
44:58 gr
45:09 the details of the structure inside the black
45:40 Now, if another way to draw a black hole
45:43 is this, and and we'll pick up on this
45:47 next time, but you draw a
45:56 horizon. That's the point of no return.
45:58 Above that the escape velocity is less
45:59 than the speed of light. At the event
46:03 horizon, the escape velocity is equal to
46:05 the speed of light. Inside the event
46:07 horizon, the escape velocity is greater
46:09 than the speed of light. And then the
46:11 mass is all concentrated as at a point
46:12 here in the center called the singularity.
46:22 And so when I say Einstein's general
46:24 relativity fails at describing the
46:26 details of the structure of spacetime
46:27 inside the black hole, what we mean is
46:32 this region in here. This region in
46:35 here, general relativity fails. And the
46:37 reason is is inside there, you're going
46:40 to need a quantum theory of
47:04 it. [Music]
47:06 [Music]
47:16 Theory of
47:17 of [Music]
47:31 gravity. We have no quantum theory of gravity.
47:50 we have been unable to quantize general
47:52 relativity. Now, there's a lot of things
47:54 we're working on to try to get there.
48:24 theory. But we're not there
48:28 because the theories of super string,
48:29 there's so many different theories and
48:31 we can't find the one that applies to
48:36 our universe. and to do tests to be able
48:38 to determine okay this is one a good
48:40 super string theory we can keep and oh
48:42 this is one we can discard those tests
48:45 require very high energies energies way
48:46 many orders of magnitude beyond what we
48:48 can do today
48:52 so we're kind of stuck on that there's
48:55 some other possible theories uh to
48:58 generate a quantum theory of gravity but
49:00 right now
49:02 the most of the people are leading
49:04 towards super strength theory and we'll
49:11 basically there is no
49:13 particles. If you get down to a very
49:15 very tiny scale of just little tiny
49:17 strings and it's and the strings could
49:19 be open-ended or they could the ends
49:21 could connect but it's those little
49:24 vibrating strings then that produce
49:26 basically everything. They produce the
49:29 particles, they produce the forces, and
49:31 they even produce the structure of space
49:37 and time itself. So that's in a nutshell
49:40 super string theory. All right, we'll