Dra Marta Volonteri - Massive black hole binaries in the cosmos
Channel: IAA - Comunicación
Date: 12/09/2020

10/09/2020 
SO Web-loquio: Massive black hole binaries in the cosmos
Massive black holes weighing from a few thousands to tens of billions of solar masses inhabit the centers of today's galaxies, including our own Milky Way. Massive black holes also shone as quasars in the past, with the earliest detected a mere one billion years after the Big Bang. Along cosmic time, encounters between galaxies hosting massive black holes in their centers have produced binary massive black holes that eventually coalesced by...
Dr. Marta Volonteri
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France