Pulsars [Frontiers and controversies in Astrophysics]

Educação Superior::Ciências Exatas e da Terra::AstronomiaEducação Superior::Ciências Exatas e da Terra::FísicaPresents a lecture of Professor Charles Bailyn that discusses stellar mass black holes. The teacher makes a summary of the four post-Newtonian effects of general relativity. Discusses the concept of gravitational lensing predicted by the theory of general relativity of Einstein. The teacher shows slides of gravitational lensing. The lecture ends with Jocelyn Bell and the discovery of pulsar