An artist's vision of an exotic binary system illustrates how matter is drawn from the roughly solar-mass star into the black hole. (Image courtesy of M. Weiss (CXC), NASA on the Astronomy Picture of the Day Web site.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty
MIT Course Number
8.901
As Taught In
Spring 2006
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course provides a graduate-level introduction to stellar astrophysics. It covers a variety of topics, ranging from stellar structure and evolution to galactic dynamics and dark matter.