Astrophysics Seminar

Date:
Oct
10
2024

Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar

Gravitational atoms and black hole binaries
11:00am|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

Superradiant instabilities may create clouds of ultralight bosons around rotating black holes, forming so-called "gravitational atoms". In this talk, I will review a series of papers that study the effects of a binary companion’s presence. The...