Start Date: | 10/30/2014 | Start Time: | 3:30 PM |
End Date: | 10/30/2014 | End Time: | 4:30 PM |
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Event Description Gordon Richards, PhD, associate professor, Drexel University
Their existence no longer a subject of debate, black holes are now considered an important building block in the universe. I will discuss how my group is finding supermassive black holes by listening to how they "sound" and through not only X-ray vision, but also infrared vision. As with all astrophysical sources, to do most science with supermassive black holes we first need to know their distances and their masses. I will discuss how we are overcoming the challenges of these problems as we seek to understand the roles that supermassive black holes play in the development of galaxies. |
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Location: Disque Hall 919, 32 South 32nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 |
Audience: Current StudentsFaculty |
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