Astronomy 2142: Black Holes
Autumn 2025

• Instructor: David Weinberg, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Astronomy
• Textbook: Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy, by Kip Thorne.

Downloadable Items (PDF format):

• Theme description of the Number, Nature, Mind theme of the GE.

Course Notes:

Notes are in PDF format. I can provide a double space version for anyone who wants more space to add their own notes.

Slides from lectures:

Homework assignments:

Information sheets:

Videos or images shown in class:

Other links, some to videos, some to informational web sites or images:

• Death by black hole.
  A conversation with the always-entertaining Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
• A journey into a black hole. This 7-minute video has quite good (and carefully calculated) visualizations and narration explaining what is going on.
• The Black Hole. Not what they are really like.`