AGN: early BH suspicion ![]() Figure caption |
Accretion Disk and Jet Formation ![]() Figure caption |
Supernova, cataclismic ![]() Figure caption |
Supernova in NGC 4526 ![]() Figure caption |
Fading supernova light ![]() Figure caption |
SN 1987 in the LMC ![]() Figure caption |
SN remnants: Crab nebulae and Cassiopeia
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Kepler Supernova SN 1604 ![]() Figure caption |
Space-time curvature ![]() Figure caption |
The Helix nebula ![]() Figure caption |
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The Dumbbell nebula ![]() Figure caption |
The Butterfly nebula ![]() Figure caption |
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M87 accretion gas disk ![]() Figure caption |
NGC 4261 with accretion disk ![]() Figure caption |
Star disruption near a BH ![]() Figure caption |
Black Holes grow by swallowing stars and gas. Their mass can become really large: 106 - 109 times the mass of the Sun (a few % of the parent galaxy mass). |
Gas dynamics ![]() Figure caption |
Stellar spectroscopy ![]() Figure caption |
< Stellar velocities ![]() Figure caption |
M32 - the advantage of high ![]() Figure caption |
Schwarzschild Method (my PhD thesis...) ![]() Figure caption |
The Galactic centre ![]() Figure caption |
Orbit of one star around ![]() Figure caption |
Orbiting stars near the ![]() Figure caption |
BH and Accretion disk appearance ![]() Figure caption |
Journey to a BH ![]() Credits |
background photo: Hubble Ultra Deep Field (Credit: NASA and ESA)
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