Universe Palaver on Black Holes: What you ever wanted to know about black holes

by Andreas Müller, Nadine Neumayer, Nate Bastian

Thursday 9 Jun 2011, 13:00 → 14:30 Europe/Berlin

Cluster building (seminar room (basement))

We would like to have an informal meeting for everybody and talk black holes (BHs). After a 10min introduction to the basics we are opening the discussion for questions. We are going to use mainly the blackboard and a flip chart, maybe also suitable slides. The level would be to explain and discuss things rather with simple viewgraphs and some of the simpler equations. We should not go into the depth of GR line elements, tensor calculus or Lagrangians. Content might cover topics like BH features, BHs in Relativity, history of BH research, BH surroundings, gravitational collapse, BH mass scale, active and non-active BHs in galactic centers, accretion, BH thermodynamics and Hawking radiation, BHs at the LHC, BHs in quantum gravity and string theory.

Slides BH-Palaver_Cluster_June2011_print.pdf