Eclipsing Black Holes

Planets transit stars all the time, yeah yeah that's old news. So what about black holes?! We've never detected a black hole transiting a star but it would create some pretty weird effects, as we get into in this week's Cool Worlds episode. Feel free to ask questions below!

::More about this Video::

► Kruse & Agol (2014), "KOI-3278: A Self-Lensing Binary Star System": https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.4379
► Maeder (1973), "Light Curves of the Gravitational Lens-like Action for Binaries with Degenerate Stars": http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1973A%26A....26..215M
► Cool Worlds - Live Q&A on Tabby's Star with Tabby Boyajian: https://youtu.be/k_-6SEb2QlM
► Cool Worlds - A Theory for Tabby's Star: https://youtu.be/risNfZxz6DQ
► Cool Worlds - Eyeball Earths: https://youtu.be/85zbpJXSTn0
► Cool Worlds - The Great American Eclipse 2017: https://youtu.be/9Vi35gVCz2Y
► Cool Worlds - A Cloaking Device for Transiting Planets: https://youtu.be/z1Pqqf_6J9w
► Cool Worlds Lab website: http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu
► Columbia University Department of Astronomy: http://www.astro.columbia.edu
► Outro music by melodysheep "Monsters of the Cosmos": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e5-0t0pTF0

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