Black Holes – detection
• Example: Like White Dwarf accretion disk but w/
black hole instead
– Gas from red giant companion spills over towards black
hole
– Gas spirals in toward black hole, through accretion disk
• Gas will be much hotter because it falls further, to very small RS
– Gas will be moving at very high velocity
• Much faster than with white dwarf since much closer  (P2 a3)
• Signature of black hole:  Very high energy release, very high
velocity
• We find MASSIVE black holes in centers of most galaxies