学术报告第188期：Astrophysical Black Holes: A Review

主讲人 (Speaker): 

Cosimo Bambi

主讲人单位 (Speaker's Institute): 

复旦大学物理系

邀请人 (Invited by): 

胡一鸣

时间 (Time): 

星期五, 2020/11/13 - 11:00 to 12:00

地点 (Location): 

珠海校区天琴中心1416会议室

摘要 (Abstract): 

       In this talk, I will review the development of the field, from the first speculations to the current lines of research. According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, black holes are relatively simple objects and completely characterized by their mass, spin angular momentum, and electric charge, but the latter can be ignored in the case of astrophysical macroscopic objects. Search for black holes in the sky started in the early 1970s with the dynamical measurement of the mass of the compact object in Cygnus X-1. In the past 10-15 years, astronomers have developed some techniques for measuring the black hole spins. Recently, we have started using astrophysical black holes for testing fundamental physics.

主讲人简介 (Speaker's CV): 

Cosimo Bambi is currently Professor at the Department of Physics of Fudan University. He received the PhD from Ferrara University (Italy) in 2007. He was a postdoc at IPMU / The University of Tokyo (Japan) and in the group of Gia Dvali at LMU Munich (Germany). He moved to Fudan University at the end of 2012. His research interests cover several areas in gravity, cosmology, and high energy astrophysics.