Black Holes: from Speculations to Observations

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2006-04-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0604304v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, 6 Figures; to appear in the Proceedings of the Albert Einstein Century International Conference, Paris, France, 2005

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2399576

This paper provides a brief review of the history of our understanding and knowledge of black holes. Starting with early speculations on ``dark stars'' I discuss the Schwarzschild "black hole" solution to Einstein's field equations and the development of its interpretation from "physically meaningless" to describing the perhaps most exotic and yet "most perfect" macroscopic object in the universe. I describe different astrophysical black hole populations and discuss some of their observational evidence. Finally I close by speculating about future observations of black holes with the new generation of gravitational wave detectors.

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