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• Michelson-Morley (1887) experiment
• Principle of Equivalence
• X-ray Binary Systems
• The Galactic Center
• M106, the galaxy in which masers reveal the accretion disk around its central Black Hole
• M87, the galaxy at the center of the Local Supercluster
• 3C273 and other quasars
• Radio galaxies
• White Dwarfs
• Supernovae
• Red Giants
• Planetary Nebulae

Pictorial evolution of stars of different masses

Census of known Black Holes

• X-ray Binaries containing a Black Hole
  

• Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei
  

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Updated 2012 Jan 16