Colloquium on Oct. 17, 2024

Different Angles on Accreting Supermassive Black Holes

Speaker: Prajval Shastri (Raman Research Institute)

Venue: SWIFAR Building 2111

Time: 10:00 AM, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024

Abstract:

Cosmic supermassive black holes are the heftiest things we know. They appear to inhabit the centres of most galaxies and co-evolve with them, thus playing a significant role in regulating galaxy assembly. We are able to spot these black holes to very high redshifts when they accrete matter, which is also what causes them to impact their environments out to spatial scales that are well beyond their gravitational sphere of influence.  In this talk I will discuss the  understanding that has emerged from investigating the systematics of accreting supermassive black holes.