Title:

When Galaxies Collide, What Happends to Their Supermassive Black Holes?

Speaker:

Dr. Tamara Bogdanovic

Affiliation:

Georgia Tech

When:

Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 10:00:00 AM   Add to Calendar

Where:

Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons Building, Room 144

Host:

Edwin Greco
edwin.greco@physics.gatech.edu

Abstract

Galaxy collisions and mergers are a common consequence of the structure formation in the universe. We know that they happen because we see a number of beautiful examples on the sky through the eyes of many astronomical observatories. It is also thought that almost every galaxy (including our own, the Milky Way) harbors a supermassive black hole at its center. I will discuss the knowns and unknowns in the evolution of supermassive black hole pairs that form in collisions of their host galaxies and end their cosmic journey when the two black holes merge due to the emission of gravitational waves.

Biography

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