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BEYOND EINSTEINBEYOND EINSTEIN
Perturbations around Black Holes
Bin Wang Fudan University
Tai Ping LakeOct. 30, 2004
BEYOND EINSTEINBEYOND EINSTEIN
Image a Black Hole!
0.1 arc sec resolution
HST Image M87
Black Hole Imager 0.1 micro arc sec resolution
4-8 arc sec
Hubble, Chandra, and other observatories are showing black holes are common place
in the Universe
Black holes provide a unique laboratory to test Einstein’s theory of gravity
A future black hole imager with a resolution one million times Hubble will observe the
effects Einstein predicted
X-ray emission from close to the event horizon provides a powerful probe