No.243 Seminar ： Black holes: why they matter
- Naritaka OSHITA Assistant Professor (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University)
- 2024/02/20 4:45pm
- Research Administration Building, Basement Floor (Conference Rooms 1&2) and Zoom
- English
- Onsite and Zoom
Summary
Black holes are one of the most mysterious objects in the Universe.
In 2015, for the first time, the LIGO collaborationsucceeded in detecting gravitational waves (GWs) sourced by the merger oftwo black holes. Since then, around 90 events of GW emission from black holes have been detected and manyphysicists are actively working on black hole physics. However, you might wonder what drives physicists to study such dark objects existing very far from us.
In this seminar, I am going to tell you how black holes are special and that understanding black holes would help us to understand gravityand perhaps even the origin of the Universe.I will also explain how I am trying to understand black holes and gravity throughout my Hakubi project.