Sommersemester 2024

This page contains all information pertaining to the course "Black Holes" that is taught in the summer semester 2024.

Content of the course:

• Geometric properties of key special black hole solutions to the Einstein equations, including the Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordström and Kerr solutions;
  
• Basic causality theory, Lorentzian geometry and Penrose diagrams;
  
• The initial value problem in general relativity;
  
• Asymptotic flatness and conserved quantities;
  
• The Incompleteness theorems of Penrose and Hawking;
  
• The Cosmic Censorship conjectures;
  
• The laws of black hole mechanics;
  
• Dynamical properties of black holes;