[brothrock]

If anyone is interested in the history and an accessible, but deep understanding of black holes I highly recommend Kip Thorne’s book “Black Holes and Time Warps” (1994). The first half of this article follows a summary of that book closely.

[defrost]

If anyone's keen to go deeper and catch up on the latest thought on such things it's not to late to slide into the Seventeenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Pescara, Italy (7-12 July 2024).

https://indico.icranet.org/event/8/

    Sergiu Klainerman: The nonlinear stability of slowly rotating Kerr black holes

    The full proof of the nonlinear stability of Kerr consists of  five papers, three written in collaboration with Jeremie Szeftel, one in collaboration  with Elena and Jeremie Szeftel  and another supporting paper authored  by Dawei Shen.

    In my lecture I will  describe the main architecture of the proof as well as some of the most important consequences.

[ViktorRay]

Kip Thorne was also in charge of the science of Interstellar (2014 movie).

He even wrote a book called The Science of Interstellar.

Also he won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Very smart man!

[MathMonkeyMan]

He also coauthored one of the classic textbooks on general relativity, [Gravitation][1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation_(book)