October 15, 2014
Event time:
Monday, October 20, 2014 - 1:00pm
Location:
Sloane Physics Lab, 3rd Floor Lounge See map
217 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description:
Yale Society of Physics Students
presents:
Black Holes, Galaxies & the Evolution of the Universe
A Talk with Professor Meg Urry
Black holes form in the young Universe and, over the next 13 billion years or so, accrete enormous amounts of matter from the surrounding galaxy. By the present time, a black hole and its host galaxy have grown in mass by factors of a million or more, roughly in lockstep. In this talk, I will first give several alternative descriptions of what a black hole is, then explain how recent multiwavelength surveys have allowed us to take a census of black hole growth across cosmic time. I conclude with the big picture: the evolution of the universe over the last 13 billion years, as indicated by computer simulations, and future prospects for observing black hole growth and mergers across the cosmos.
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