Observing Black Holes Large and Small

Observing Black Holes Large and Small

Audio recording of a lecture given by Daryl Haggard on March 12, 2021 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "It’s been a fantastic decade for black hole studies, highlighted by the 2017 and 2020 Nobel Prizes in Physics. Multiple Galactic Center research groups, the Event Horizon Telescope, and LIGO/Virgo continue to bring rapid new observations to sharpen our understanding of these exotic objects. I will discuss the unique variability of the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, alongside other time domain phenomena in the Galactic Center, traced out over more than 20 years of observations from coordinated multi-wavelength campaigns. I will also briefly explore how we can continue to push the frontiers of black hole research with existing and next-generation observatories.
Daryl Haggard is an Associate Professor of Physics at McGill University in the McGill Space Institute and holds a Canada Research Chair in Multi-messenger Astrophysics. She and her team study the Galactic Center and Sgr A*, electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave sources, accreting compact objects, and supermassive black holes and their host galaxies, using multi-wavelength and time domain surveys. She is also a proud alumna of St. John’s College Santa Fe where she earned her BA in 1995."

Santa Fe, NM

2021-03-12

Meem Library has been given permission to make this item available.

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SF_HaggardD_Observing_Black_Holes_Large_and_Small_2021-03-12

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