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Dr William Alston, IoA Cambridge
Tuesday 14 November 2017, 19:45-21:30
A random walk through accreting black holes
- 👤 Speaker: Dr William Alston, IoA Cambridge
- 📅 Date & Time: Tuesday 14 November 2017, 19:45 - 21:30
- 📍 Venue: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry
Abstract
Black holes are well-known celestial bodies that are often featured in popular films and fictions. Usually portrayed as a black lobe sucking in everything around it, black hole is one of the most menacing and mysterious things out there in the universe. However, black holes do not devour everything – matters attracted by its gravity can orbit around it at high speed, producing blindingly bright radiations; this is known as the accretion disk of black holes. Dr William Alston’s research focuses on the analysis of accreting black holes, and he is going to give an overview of these sources and the methods astrophysicists use to study these environments and what physics they are trying to understand.
Series This talk is part of the Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS) series.
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