On Monday, November 4, 2024, at 12:00 c.t., the next date of our physics colloquium will take place this winter semester.
Speaker is Prof. Imre Bartos (University of Florida) on the topic "SHIFTING PARADIGMS IN MULTIMESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS".
The last decade brought about several transformational discoveries in multimessenger
astrophysics. The first detection of a neutron star merger through gravitational waves and
across the electromagnetic spectrum provided invaluable insights on the production of the
heaviest elements in the universe, while the first discovery of high-energy neutrinos from
an accreting supermassive black hole changed how we think of cosmic particle
acceleration. With the rapidly increasing number of discoveries using newly available
cosmic messengers (gravitational waves and neutrinos), several of our astrophysical paradigms have shifted.
paradigms have shifted. I will focus on one of these shifting paradigms: the mergers of
black holes that were historically considered to be "dark" events producing only
gravitational waves, but new observations point towards a brighter, more impactful,
multimessenger picture.
Image above: Artist's concept of a pair of stellar-mass black holes embedded in the gas disk of a supermassive black hole. The gray shadowlike features around the stellar-mass black holes depict lensed images of the surrounding galaxy seen above the disk: If you were to look immediately below the black hole, you'd see light coming from the starlight above it. R. Hurt (IPAC) / Caltech
Abstract of the lecture by Prof. Bartos.
The introduction will be given by Prof. Dr. Anna Franckowiak.
The faculty cordially invites all interested parties. The event will take place in lecture hall HZO 20.
All dates of the Physics Colloquium can be found here.