S. Markoff: "From imagining to imaging black holes"

This event took place at Rijkmuseum Boerhaave in Leiden on November 25, 2024. - S. Markoff: "From imagining to imaging black holes"Black holes are one of the strangest byproducts of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, with a clear prediction of a "point of no return" called the event horizon. In 2019 and 2022 the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration published the first direct images of light just outside two supermassive black holes, including our own Galaxy's. She will explain what making these images entailed (like building a planet-sized telescope), as well as present some of our most recent results and puzzles, and a preview of what is to come.
Originally from the US, Sera Markoff is a Professor of Theoretical High-Energy Astrophysics at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy and the GRavitation and AstroParticle Physics Centre of Excellence, at the University of Amsterdam. She sits on the Science Board of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration and helped present its first results to the world in 2019. Her research group studies how black holes energise their surroundings, including acting as particle accelerators.The other speaker of the night was P. Uttley: "X-raying black holes at ultra-high resolution". See this talk here:    • P. Uttley: "X-raying black holes at u...  Join our mailing list: http://astronomyontap.nl/Follow us on:X:   / aotleideninstagram:     / facebook:     / aotleiden