Black Holes and Telescopes: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

This teaching guide includes two lesson options each stemming from a brief biographical history lesson about S. Chandrasekhar. Students may explore science history in pursuit of the key dates in the discovery and research about black holes. Another lesson option looks at how we explore the universe using different telescopes. Chandrasekhar’s namesake telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory explores space collecting data about some of the universe’s hottest objects.