ORIGINS Black Hole Days

from Monday, October 27, 2025 (9:00 AM) to Tuesday, October 28, 2025 (7:00 PM)
MPE, Garching (X5 1.1.18)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Oct 27, 2025
Oct 28, 2025
AM
9:00 AM
Primordial Black Holes & Fundamental Aspects (until 10:25 AM) (X5 1.1.18)
9:00 AM Welcome   (X5 1.1.18)
9:05 AM Primordial Black Holes: Positivist Perspective and Galaxy Genesis - Florian Kühnel (MPP & LMU Munich)   (X5 1.1.18)
9:30 AM Black hole memory burden and its observational manifestations: spectroscopy of mergers and gravitational waves - Gia Dvali   (X5 1.1.18)
9:55 AM Transitioning to Memory Burden: Detectable Small Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter - Sebastian Zell (Ludwig Maximilian University & Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich)   (X5 1.1.18)
10:10 AM Light Micro Black Holes and their astrophysical consequences - Manuel Ettengruber (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut))   (X5 1.1.18)
10:25 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:50 AM
Primordial Black Holes & Fundamental Aspects (until 12:00 PM) (X5 1.1.18)
10:50 AM Primordial Black holes are 5D - Prof. Dieter Lüst   (X5 1.1.18)
11:15 AM Minimal black holes and species thermodynamics - Ivano Basile (Max Planck Institute for Physics)   (X5 1.1.18)
11:30 AM Black Holes as Probes of UV Physics - Matilda Delgado (MPP & Harvard U.)   (X5 1.1.18)
11:45 AM Black Holes as a laboratory for Quantum Gravity - Carmine Montella (Max Planck Institute for Physics)   (X5 1.1.18)
9:00 AM
Stellar Black Holes & Gravitational Waves (until 10:10 AM) (X5 1.1.18)
9:00 AM Gravitational Waves from Stars Stripped by Supermassive Black Holes - Aleksandra Olejak (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)   (X5 1.1.18)
9:25 AM 3D Simulations of Stellar Black Hole Formation - Daniel Kresse (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)   (X5 1.1.18)
9:40 AM The Tip of the Iceberg: Unveiling the Origins of Compact Object Mergers through Gravitational-Wave Outlier Events - Jakob Stegmann (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)   (X5 1.1.18)
9:55 AM Very Massive, Rapidly Spinning Binary Black Hole Progenitors through Chemically Homogeneous Evolution -- The Case of GW231123 - Silvia Popa (MPA)   (X5 1.1.18)
10:10 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:35 AM
Supermassive Black Holes & Active Galactic Nuclei (until 12:00 PM) (X5 1.1.18)
10:35 AM eROSITA AGN surveys: constraints on the local population of massive black holes - Andrea Merloni (MPE)   (X5 1.1.18)
11:00 AM Robust AGN and host galaxy decomposition in optical spectral fitting - Catarina Aydar (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)   (X5 1.1.18)
11:15 AM The Search for Ice Bands of Frosty Active Galactic Nuclei - Ms Khushboo - (LMU)   (X5 1.1.18)
11:30 AM Coronal gas emission - theory predicted, observationally confirmed - tracer of BH mass - Almudena Prieto (IAC & Munich Observatory)   (X5 1.1.18)
11:45 AM Precision Black Hole Masses at Cosmic Noon - Taro Shimizu (MPE)   (X5 1.1.18)
PM
12:00 PM --- Catered lunch ---
1:15 PM
Primordial Black Holes & Fundamental Aspects (until 1:55 PM) (X5 1.1.18)
1:15 PM Structure formation with primordial black holes - M. Sten Delos (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)   (X5 1.1.18)
1:40 PM Detecting Primordial Black Holes in the Solar System - Valentin Thoss (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)   (X5 1.1.18)
1:55 PM
The Galactic Center (until 2:35 PM) (X5 1.1.18)
1:55 PM The Black Hole in the Centre of the Milky Way - Frank Eisenhauer (MPE)   (X5 1.1.18)
2:20 PM Finding faint stars in the Galactic Center with GRAVITY - Felix Mang (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)   (X5 1.1.18)
2:35 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:00 PM
The Galactic Center (until 4:00 PM) (X5 1.1.18)
3:00 PM Probing the gravitational potential around Sagittarius A* with stellar orbits - Matteo Sadun Bordoni (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)   (X5 1.1.18)
3:15 PM Flares from SgrA*: Dynamical probes for the accretion flow around supermassive black holes - Diogo Ribeiro (Max Plank Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)   (X5 1.1.18)
3:30 PM Polarization of reflected X-ray emission from Sgr A molecular complex: multiple flares, multiple sources? - Ildar Khabibullin (USM LMU, MPA)   (X5 1.1.18)
3:45 PM Feeding the Galactic Center: Understanding the G1-2-3 Gas Streamer - Simran Joharle (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)   (X5 1.1.18)
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:20 PM
Stellar Black Holes & Gravitational Waves (until 5:00 PM) (X5 1.1.18)
4:20 PM Unveiling the milli-Herz Gravitational Wave Universe with LISA - Valeriya Korol (Max Planck for Astrophysics)   (X5 1.1.18)
4:45 PM Where are the isolated stellar-mass black holes? - Antoine Mérand (European Southern Observatory)   (X5 1.1.18)
6:30 PM --- Conference dinner ---
12:00 PM --- Catered lunch ---
1:10 PM
Supermassive Black Holes & Active Galactic Nuclei (until 2:10 PM) (X5 1.1.18)
1:10 PM Elusive Plunges and Heavy Intermediate-mass-ratio Inspirals from Single and Binary Supermassive Black Holes - Lazaros Souvaitzis (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)   (X5 1.1.18)
1:25 PM Ultramassive Black Holes at z < 0.1 - Stefano de Nicola   (X5 1.1.18)
1:40 PM The fine-tunning challenges of AGN feedback from galaxy groups to massive clusters - Justo Gonzalez (European Southern Observatory)   (X5 1.1.18)
1:55 PM Supermassive black hole spin evolution in cosmological simulations - Luca Sala (C2PAP/LMU/USM)   (X5 1.1.18)
2:10 PM --- Coffee break ---
2:30 PM
Supermassive Black Holes & Active Galactic Nuclei (until 3:55 PM) (X5 1.1.18)
2:30 PM Modelling the BH-galaxy connection in cosmological simulations - Volker Springel (MPA)   (X5 1.1.18)
2:55 PM Multiphase gas reservoirs around z~3 quasars and the impact of feedback from galaxy to halo scales - Jelena Ritter (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)   (X5 1.1.18)
3:10 PM Photometric redshifts for quasars in S-PLUS - Raquel Ruiz Valença (Universidade de São Paulo)   (X5 1.1.18)
3:25 PM Spatially resolving the broad line region in a QSO at z=4 - Ric Davies (MPE)   (X5 1.1.18)
3:40 PM Formation of massive seed BHs in the early universe - Sunmyon Chon (MPA)   (X5 1.1.18)
3:55 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:15 PM
Supermassive Black Holes & Active Galactic Nuclei (until 5:15 PM) (X5 1.1.18)
4:15 PM The Dichotomy in the Nuclear and Host Galaxy Properties of High-redshift Quasars - Ruancun Li (Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)   (X5 1.1.18)
4:30 PM Accelerating Lensed Quasar Discovery in Euclid with Self-Supervised Learning - Dr Irham Taufik Andika (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)   (X5 1.1.18)
4:45 PM Radiative Transfer Effects on Hydrogen Balmer Lines in Little Red Dots and Their Impact on the Black Hole Mass Estimates - Seok-Jun Chang (Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik)   (X5 1.1.18)
5:00 PM Multiple black holes in high-redshift galaxies with JWST/NIRSpec-IFS - Hannah Übler (MPE)   (X5 1.1.18)