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Friday 10 March 2017, 11:30-12:30
Life and adventures of supermassive black hole binaries: the mythical final-parsec problem
- đ¤ Speaker: Eugene Vasilyev (Oxford)
- đ Date & Time: Friday 10 March 2017, 11:30 - 12:30
- đ Venue: Kavli LMR, IoA
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Martin Haehnelt
Abstract
I review our present understanding of the evolution of binary supermassive black holes—how do they form, why do they eventually merge into a single black hole, and what happens afterwards, as well as discuss their possible observational signatures and perspectives of detection. I focus on the difficulties in bringing the two black holes to coalescence, which have been dubbed “the final-parsec problem”, and on the recent possible solutions to it.
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