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Disks, jets, and other black hole-powered transients

Disks, jets, and other black hole-powered transients

Monday, April 22, 2019 at 4:00 pm
WNGR 116
Sasha Tchekhovskoy (Northwestern)

Black holes are responsible for a wide variety of astrophysical phenomena. They devour stars, eject relativistic jets, affect star formation and galaxy evolution, and enrich the Universe with heavy elements. I will discuss how global general relativistic magnetized fluid dynamics numerical simulations allow us to use this activity to quantitatively probe strong-field gravity and constrain black hole physics in various astrophysical contexts.

Davide Lazzati