Category Quantum computing and interdisciplinary applications
Event Duration 2017-12-21 - 2017-12-21
Conference Name Supermassive Black Holes and Gravitational Waves
Speaker Chung-Pei Ma, Professor of Astronomy and Physics, UC Berkeley
Content For over three decades, the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 in the Virgo Cluster has hosted the most massive known black hole in the local universe. New observational data have substantially expanded dynamical measurements of black hole masses at the centers of nearby galaxies. I will describe recent progress in discovering black holes up to twenty billion solar masses in ongoing surveys of massive elliptical galaxies. I will discuss the implications of this new population of ultra-massive black holes, including its impact on our understanding of the symbiotic relationships between black holes and galaxies, and on the gravitational-wave signals from merging black hole binaries targeted by ongoing pulsar timing array experiments.
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Location Lecture Room A, 4F, 3rd General Building, NTHU
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