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The chapter provides a short historical overview on the study of black holes, from the dark stars of Michell and Laplace to the study of black holes beyond Einstein’s gravity, from the identification of Cygnus X-1 as the first stellar-mass black hole candidate to the detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO experiment.

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    Deviations from a perfect blackbody spectrum arise due to the finite size of the black hole, the mass and the spin of the emitted particles, etc.

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Bambi, C. (2017). Introduction. In: Black Holes: A Laboratory for Testing Strong Gravity. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4524-0_1

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