Title：Probing Supermassive Black Holes in M87 and Beyond via Stellar Dynamics
Speaker：Prof. Chung-Pei Ma (UC Berkeley)
Time：2023/6/16 (Fri.) 12:00
Place：R1203, ASIAA, NTU

Abstract：
Supermassive black holes have been discovered dynamically at the centers of more than 100 local galaxies, but the local census is highly incomplete, particularly in the high mass regime. A robust determination of a black hole’s mass requires both superb datasets and extensive theoretical modeling. I will describe recent progress in studying black holes in M87 and other massive galaxies enabled by integral-field spectroscopy on 10-meter-class telescopes and by triaxial stellar dynamical modeling. I will also discuss the implications of these results for gravitational wave signals from merging black hole binaries targeted by ongoing pulsar timing array experiments.

registration：
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