[astroseminar at Sapienza] Amaldi Research Center seminar by Marta Volonteri, Dipartimento di Fisica, 26 September 3 pm

[raffaella.schneider at roma1.infn.it]

Thursday September 26, 3 pm
Aula Conversi, Dipartimento di Fisica


Marta Volonteri
(Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris)

Massive black hole binaries in the cosmos

Massive black holes weighing from a few tens of 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 billion years 
after the Big Bang. Along cosmic time, encounters between galaxies hosting massive black holes in their centers are expected to have 
produced binary massive black holes that eventually coalesced by emission of gravitational waves. I will discuss the physical processes 
through which massive black holes pair and bind, and how we can use gravitational wave observations with ESA’s planned satellite 
LISA to constrain the evolving population of massive black holes. 


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