Fabio Pacucci, A very important discovery about black holes - 26 maggio 2016
Channel: SNS Outreach
Date: 27/05/2016

The news of a very important discovery about black holes has just been released. Thelead author of the study, Fabio Pacucci from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, willbriefly describe the discovery for us.

Fabio was born in a town South of Taranto, in 1988. After attending the high school mTaranto, he moved to Rome, to study at the Sapienza University.
Here, he gets his Bachelor's degree in Physics and his Master's in Astrophysics. During thisperiod, he studied the cosmic microwave background, the echo of the Big Bang, anddynamics of stellar clusters.
Then, he begins his Ph.D. in Physics at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, in theCosmology group, led by professor Andrea Ferrara. Here, after some wanderings in severa!
fields ofresearch, he dedicated himself to the study of the objects that he liked the most, sin cehis childhood: the mysterious black holes. During the Ph.D, he visited severa! researchinstitutes around the world, for instance the IAP (Institut 'Astrophysique de Paris), Harvard,and Yale, to work with the leading world experts of black holes.