Introduction to black hole theory

PSL graduate programs in Astrophysics and in Physics

École Normale Supérieure, Paris, April-June 2025

Slides

The slides only contains the figures shown during the lectures; for more details, take a look at the indicated chapters of the lecture notes.

Lecture 1: Definition and main properties of black holes (30 April 2025)

(Chapters 1 and 4 of the lecture notes)

Lecture 2: Geometry of null hypersurfaces and Killing horizons (7 May 2025)

(Chapters 2 and 3 of the lecture notes)

Lecture 3: The Kerr black hole (14 May 2025)

(Chapter 10 and Appendix C of the lecture notes)

Lecture 4 (21 May 2025)

Lecture 5 (28 May 2025)

Lecture 6 (4 June 2025)

Lecture 7 (11 June 2025)