Astr 204 November 13, 2001 

Searching for Black Holes

The mass of the Sun?

Kepler's third law

Adding up masses

How does gravitational force change?

It decreases!

Centrifugal force

Orbital velocity

Rotation curves

Weighing the galaxies

Doppler shift

Spiral galaxies

Actual rotation curves of four spiral galaxies

Dark matter

Elliptical galaxies

Dark matter distribution

Mass to light ratio

Mass to light w/in orbit of Sun

Super massive black hole?

The local group (roughly to scale)

Galaxy clusters