Colloquium on Apr. 30, 2020

Black holes across space and time

Speaker:David Garofalo (Kennesaw State)

Venue:Video Conference

Time:10:00 AM, Thursday, Apr. 30, 2020

Abstract:

When the first realistic black hole solution was presented almost 60 years ago to astronomers at a conference on the newly discovered quasars, it was brushed off as irrelevant. But shortly thereafter and especially over the past two decades, black holes have become critical in our quest to understand the structure and evolution of galaxies. I will describe both the observations that have propelled the black holes center stage in astronomy and recent theoretical insights.