Tuesday, 5 July 2011

black hole - Blackhole Finding Techniques

I know of two methods for finding exoplanets: the transit method and the radial velocity method. These two methods work as follows:



  1. Transit: we observe stars and watch for when a planet obstructs the light from the star.


  2. Radial Velocity: detecting the planet by observing the motion of the star and using Kepler's law.


Are these methods also used for discovering black-holes? What are the pros and cons of these methods, I think that the con of transit is that it's difficult to see the black hole. A pro is that it doesn't matter how many stars there are around the black hole.



With the Radial Velocity method, a pro is that it's easy to detect but requires exactly one companion star (I used this source).

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