Supermassive black holes are a critical ingredient in our
Universe. They are the most luminous persistent sources in the sky,
in both photons and gravitational waves, and they play an essential
role in the formation and growth of galaxies. My...
The Bahcall Lunch follows the astrophysics colloquium lecture.
Registration is required by 4pm the previous Thursday so a meal can
be provided. Email Amanda at cenker@ias.edu
with questions.
The recent breakthrough in the detection of gravitational waves
(GWs) from merging black hole (BH) and neutron star (NS) binaries
by advanced LIGO/Virgo has generated renewed interest in
understanding the formation mechanisms of merging compact...
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) provide valuable cosmological
constraints independent from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)
and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). While the most recent and
largest single sample of SNe Ia from the Dark Energy...
Abstract: Astrophysical black holes are known
to be rotating. Within classical General Relativity, the simplest
spacetime solution (the Kerr solution) describing a rotating black
hole reveals a traversable passage through an inner horizon – which
in...
The demography of young and mature exoplanets is crucial to
understanding the full picture of planetary system formation and
evolution. In this talk, I will highlight two observational
approaches that expand the exoplanet demographic census. In
the...
The Thirty Meter Telescope is a top-ranked priority of the Astro
2020 Decadal Survey because its combination of very large aperture
and adaptive optics opens up vast areas for unique observational
work across a broad swath of frontier science...
Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies present
unsolved theoretical challenges for our understanding of
high-energy astrophysics, gravity and gravitational waves, star and
galaxy formation, and space plasma physics. For decades, our...
The Gaia astrometric survey has delivered a detailed “close-up”
of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, by measuring precise 3D positions and
velocities for over a billion stars. This view has upended plans
for a new era of “precision Galactic dynamics.”...
