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Matter and Electromagnetic Fields in Strong Gravity
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Matter and Electromagnetic Fields in Strong Gravity
CSIC Building (#406),
Seminar Room 4122.
Directions: home.cscamm.umd.edu/directions
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Observing the sites of massive binaries and recoiling black
holes - electromagnetic signatures
Stefanie Komossa
MPI fur extraterrestrische Physik, Garching
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Abstract:
The presence of binary supermassive black holes, and the
recoiling single black holes that they sometimes produce, has
potentially important implications for many branches of astrophysics,
including cosmological structure formation, black hole growth, and
feedback processes and the evolution of AGN activity. Merging black
holes are laboratories which enable us to test theories of gravity
and to study the effects of strong gravity on matter. The
electromagnetic signatures of coalescing and recoiling black holes
are signposts of merger events and provide tight new constraints on
merger histories. I will provide an overview of these signatures
including future schemes to search for the electromagnetic
counterparts to merging and ejected black holes, and will discuss
some astrophysical implications. |
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