Spectroscopy of heavy exotic mesons using lattice QCD static potentials and the Born-Oppenheimer approximation

I discuss the investigation of heavy exotic mesons using lattice QCD static potentials and the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. I summarize selected recent results for $\bar{b}\bar{b}qq$ tetraquarks, for $I=0$ bottomonium and for $I=1$ bottomonium.