Am Montag, den 4. November 2024, um 12:00 Uhr c.t., findet der nächste Termin unseres Physikalischen Kolloquiums in diesem Wintersemester statt.
Referent ist Prof. Imre Bartos (University of Florida) zum Thema „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. 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 des Vortrags von Prof. Bartos.
Die Einführung erfolgt durch Prof. Dr. Anna Franckowiak.
Die Fakultät lädt alle Interessierten herzlich ein. Die Veranstaltung findet im Hörsaal HZO 20 statt.
Alle Termine des Physikalischen Kolloquiums finden Sie hier.