Cosmos:elementary | Why are we so sure black holes exist? How to find a stellar mass black hole? @Cosmos_elementary | Uploaded November 2019 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
In this video we explore why scientists are so sure that stellar mass black holes exist.

Sources:
John Michel’s ideas
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1979JHA....10...42S

Escape and other velocities:
https://www.calc.ru/pervaya-kosmicheskaya-skorost-zemli.html
wolframalpha.com/input/?i=earth%20escape%20velocity
wolframalpha.com/input/?i=jupiter+escape+velocity
wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sun+escape+velocity
X-ray sources
heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/headates/what_kind.html
Sun facts:
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/sunfact.html
Neutron star mass limit
arxiv.org/pdf/1307.3995.pdf
The most massive neutron star
nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0880-2?utm_source=commission_junction&utm_medium=affiliate
Radius of Sagittarius A*
wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Schwarzschild+radius+4*10%5E6+solar+masses
Observable evidence and data supporting existence of black holes
arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0612312.pdf
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~narayan/Benefunder/Narayan_McClintock.pdf
science.sciencemag.org/content/300/5627/1898


How to find a stellar mass black hole?
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~srk/BlackHoles/BH_SRK.pdf
Mass function
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/B/Binary+Mass+Function
ster.kuleuven.be/~stevenb/downloads/summerschool_talks/Marsh_1.pdf
https://www.atnf.csiro.au/outreach/education/senior/astrophysics/binary_mass.html
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~george/ay20/Ay20-Lec4x.pdf
Gravitational waves
https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/gw-sources
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1992ApJ...399L.145R
Lectures
youtube.com/watch?v=IlcE7QwGoMU
youtube.com/watch?v=mVqLF6FU1-o
youtube.com/watch?v=bagpxIzXow0