Black holes

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Lecture overview

Professor Susskind continues the discussion of black hole physics. He begins by reviewing the Schwarzschild metric, and how it results in the event horizon of a black hole. Light rays can orbit a black hole. Professor Susskind derives the equations of motion for such an orbit using classical mechanics and the conservation of energy and angular momentum. This derivation yields the photon sphere at the orbital radius of a light ray around a black hole.