BHC2017
Location: MPIfR, Bonn, Germany
Date: 2 – 3 February 2017
Rationale: Yearly BHC group meeting
About Amanda Schut
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Entries by Amanda Schut
Black Holes Eventually Evaporate Over Time
Black holes can actually lose mass. Stephen Hawking theorized in 1974 that black holes radiate small numbers of particles (mainly photons), a process known as “Hawking Radiation”. This “evaporation” process can lead the black hole to shrink over time and ultimately to vanish completely. However, it is a staggeringly slow process: it would take about 10^67 […]
A Super-Massive Black Hole Lies At The Center Of our own Milky Way Galaxy
It is now thought that most galaxies host supermassive black holes at their centers. In fact, 25,000 light years away at the centre of our own Milky way Galaxy is a black hole with 4 million times the mass of our own sun. It is this supermassive black hole that is the main target of […]
John Mitchell Proposed the Idea Of Black Holes Already In 1783
John Michell (1783) and Pierre-Simon Laplace (1796) were the first people to propose the concept of “dark stars” or object which, if compressed into a sufficiently small size, would have an escape velocity which exceeded even the speed of light. Later, the term “frozen star” was used to describe the last phase of a star’s […]
Department of Astrophysics,
IMAPP, Radboud University,
P.O. Box 9010,
6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP),
Goethe University,
Max-von-Laue-Str. 1,
Frankfurt, Germany
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR),
Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121
Bonn, Germany
Other Partnerships
-Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
-European Research Council (ERC)
-Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE)
-European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO)
-Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE, Garching)
-Observatoire de Paris
-Event Horizon Telescope
-European Research Council (ERC)
-Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE)
-European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO)
-Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE, Garching)
-Observatoire de Paris
-Event Horizon Telescope